I Hate Women (1934) User Reviews (2)

A muddle of a murder mystery

[AlsExGal · 5/10 · 28 December 2023]

Stars Wallace Ford, June Clyde, Fuzzy Knight, Bradley Page, and a host of others, including, if you look far enough down in the cast, Cecilia Parker, Barbara Rogers, and Eleanor Hunt. I mention these because I must admit that by the time I got to the end, I actually wasn't sure which one murdered the man, the husband of June Clyde, the lady who was framed for murder.

The show is a fun to watch - up to a point - but it's very badly constructed, and when the ending just suddenly happens and it's all talk and no show of whodunit, I couldn't figure out who they were talking about. Wallace Ford's fine as the lead male. June Clyde's even better as the framed woman. Bradley Page is the no-good newspaper reporter whom all the other reporters can't stand - and with good reason.

If you're easily entertained for about 70 minutes, this is decent. But it's also a mess in some ways. And Wally hates women, and yet by the end of the film Wally loves June, and it was June's husband who was killed.

A curate's egg of a movie -- "good in parts!"

[JohnHowardReid · 6/10 · 27 November 2013]

This is almost a good film. Snappy direction, snappy dialogue, good acting, and reasonable production values. But unfortunately, the glue is missing. It just doesn't stick well. It just doesn't flow into a harmonious whole. It's made up of bits and pieces – most of them very entertaining. But they just don't glow together. They don't seem to add up to a harmonious whole. So if you only had an odd reel of the movie, say the first half-hour of the 16mm, TV version, you'd say to yourself, "This is pretty good. I'd love to see the rest of it." So you rejoice when you buy Alpha's DVD. But then you feel depressed and let down once you see the whole film. Basically, it's a newspaper yarn with Wallace Ford as an alcoholic reporter, the lovely June Clyde as she who is framed. Fuzzy Knight is along for comic relief. No, that phrase is wrong. Fuzzy is never along. His character turns up at odd times, and is never cemented into the plot. Ditto most of the cast. Everyone seems to be on the periphery. Result: We see far too much of Wallace Ford. As written he's a pretty conventional, strictly one-dimensional character and he really out-stays his welcome. We don't dislike him. We just don't care if he gets the girl or not. We don't give a hang if he corners the real killer or not. And we don't give a plugged nickel if he stays in the movie or disappears from the action altogether.