Review of Metropolitan (1935) by James C — 13 Jan 2016

I'm glad I found this little gem--I'm a sucker for films with sharp, witty dialogue, and Metropolitan has plenty of it. This exchange in particular had me chortling:

Charlie: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century... and it failed. Wasn't Brookfarm Fourierist? It failed.

Tom: That's debatable.

Charlie: Whether Brookfarm failed?

Tom: That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said.

Charlie: Well, for me, ceasing to exist is - is failure. I mean, that's pretty definitive.

Tom: Well, everyone ceases to exist. Doesn't mean everyone's a failure.

Gold!