The Animal Kingdom- 1932

The film is based on a play, of the same name, set in 1930’s New York and Connecticut. File:The Animal Kingdom (1932, Film).jpg, with Don Dillaway and Ann Harding in The Animal Kingdom (1932)}}} Tom Collier, Leslie Howard (actor), is a book publisher who has been living in the city with his best friend and lover Daisy Sage, Ann Harding, without being married. His wealthy father, Rufus Collier, Henry Stephenson, wants him to live a respectable life. While Daisy is away for her job, Cecilia, Myrna Loy convinces Tom to marry her. Although, their lawyer and friend Owen Neil Hamilton (actor), is in love with her, he doesn’t have enough financial resources to maintain her interest. Cecilia tries to get Tom to sell out without his realizing it. She talks him into publishing bad books that will make money and get rid of his old friends, including “Red”, his prize-fighter friend and butler. She wants Tom to sell his publishing company, live in the city with his father, as a “proper gentleman”, and take their place in society, which Tom has been fighting all his life. Daisy tries to stay away; but, she and Tom’s Bohemianism friends can’t believe he’s happy. She loves him deeply, and wants to have children with him but cares most about his well-being. Tom complains that he’s losing his soul and integrity. Finally, when Cee offers Tom champagne to toast selling his publishing company and moving in with his father, Tom realizes that Cee’s bedroom suite reminds him of a brothel he used to go, as he says, “in vino veritas”. When Red tells Tom he is going back to the city, that he can’t stomach anymore, Tom agrees, saying, he’s “going back to his wife,” Daisy. As he leaves, he put a little something on the mantle for Cee, just as he used to, with the girls, in the bordello.

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