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75% Critic Match
The Social Lion
“THE BEST LAUGH OF THE SEASON Get an Eye and Earful of the Oakie Chin and Grin”
7.5 / 10• 1930• 1h 12m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Cast & Crew
Jack Oakie
Marco Perkins
Lead
Mary Brian
Cynthia Brown
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Chick Hathaway
Olive Borden
Gloria Staunton
Charles Sellon
Jim Perkins
Cyril Ring
Ralph Williams
E.H. Calvert
Henderson
JG
James Gibson
Howard
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. A. Edward Sutherland's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Social Lion is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
