

Of Human Bondage
The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise......and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
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- Language
- English
- baby
- waitress
- self-destruction
- one-sided love
- unrequited love
- inheritance
- doctor
- destruction
- pre-code
- tuberculosis
- medical school
- unwed mother
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- PremiereNRNew York City, New York28 Jun 1934
- TheatricalNR20 Jul 1934
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Of Human Bondage was released on 20 July 1934.
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2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/13/2022
I can tell when I am engaged with a film if I want to get off the chair and strangle one of the cast... Well Leslie Howard engenders exactly that feeling as he plays the hapless, lovestruck "Philip" who has fallen in love with the nasty, scheming "Mildred" - Bette Davis (with a rather dodgy English agent). The chemistry between the two of them is great. She treats him appallingly, yet like a doting puppy he comes bac…
- T6/10
tmdb28039023
8/27/2022
Early on in Of Human Bondage Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) is told “You will never be anything but mediocre.” Soon after, Mildred Rogers is described as “anemic … ill-natured and contemptible.” Neither will ever do anything to disprove these assessments. Carey especially will never be able to overcome his weakness; he was literally born with a clubfoot, but his real problem is that he never develops a figurative spine…
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