Rent You and Me (1938)
3.5 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 25min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Morris (Harry Carey), the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts (Sylvia Sidney) and Joe Dennis (George Raft), working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
- Actors:
- Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey, Roscoe Karns, George E. Stone, Warren Hymer, Robert Cummings, Adrian Morris, Roger Gray, Cecil Cunningham, Vera Gordon, Egon Brecher, Willard Robertson, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Bernadene Hayes, Joyce Compton, Carol Paige, Ernie Adams, Sam Ash
- Directors:
- Fritz Lang
- Producers:
- Fritz Lang
- Writers:
- Virginia Van Upp, Norman Krasna, Jack Moffitt
- Aka:
- Wonderful
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Fritz Lang, Top 10 Films Set in Department Stores, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2024
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with writer and film programmer Tony Rayns (2024)
- Crafting a Career (2024,23 mins): academic Lucy Bolton discusses the life and lengthy film career of the acclaimed stage and screen actor Sylvia Sidney
- The Department Store Opera (2024,27 mins): author and musicologist David Huckvale discusses Kurt Weill and the film's unique musical score
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
