DISCARDED LOVERS

US, 1932, 60 minutes, Black and white.
Natalie Morehead, Russell Hopton, J.Farrell Mac Donald, Barbara Weeks, Jason Robards Sr, Roy D' Arcy, Sharon Lynn, Jack Trent, Allen Dailey.
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer.

Discarded Lovers is a non-essential curiosity item of small-budget American filmmaking in the early 1930s, supporting feature material.

The film was of interest in its first few minutes as the camera fluidly runs around a film studio set, a range of locations, personnel, technical aspects, actors and director as well is visitors.

The film shows several takes of the key scene in the film which is later used as a way to understanding a murder.

The star is one of those haughty women who rose from nothing to be a star, has divorced one husband thinking him beneath her, is in the process of divorce from her present husband, a jealous drinking man, and is the object of attention from the director, the writer and the chauffeur who has stolen a ring from her. While there are police in the investigation, especially one who is too stupid for words!, it is a writer who has solved other mysteries who sets up one of those inevitable gatherings of all the suspects in order to reveal the killer. He is also attracted to the dead woman’s secretary who turns out to be the sister of the drinking husband, who had hoped that her working with the star would bring her around.

This is material that was to become much more familiar as the 1930s wore on. (And it is the writer who is the murderer, creating scenes in films which reveal his feelings and his plans.)