Maybe It's Love (1930)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

William A. Wellman

Writers:

Darryl F. Zanuck (story)
Joseph Jackson (screenplay)

Release Date:

4 October 1930 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

Plot Keywords:

Deception | College | American Football | Rally | Feminine Wiles

Cast

Joan Bennett	...	Nan Sheffield
Joe E. Brown	...	Yates
James Hall	...	Tommy Nelson
Laura Lee	...	Betty
Sumner Getchell	...	Whiskers
George Irving	...	College Professor
George Bickel	...	Earl Hahns - Trustee
Russell Saunders	...	Russ Saunders of Southern California (as Russ Saunders)
Tim Moynihan	...	Tim Moynihan of Notre Dame
Bill Banker	...	Bill Banker of Tulane University
Howard Harpster	...	Howard Harpster of Carnegie Tech
Ray Montgomery	...	Ray Montgomery of Univ. of Pittsburgh
Otto Pommerening	...	Otto Pommerening of Michigan
Red Sleight	...	Red Sleight of Purdue
Kenneth Haycraft	...	Kenneth Haycraft of Minnesota

Also Known As:

Eleven Men and a Girl (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The cast includes members of the 1928 and 1929 All-American football teams. The "Stuart Erwin" who plays Brown of Harvard is a football player, not the actor of the same name; Ray Montgomery is also a football player, and not the actor of the same name.

Movie Connections:

Version of Freshman Love (1936)

Soundtrack:

Maybe It's Love

amusing comedy from Wellman

Early Wellman is always entertaining, constantly throwing in weird directorial touches. This one's a genre football comedy (Horse Feathers etc.) that has quite a few amusing aspects. Number one is the young, intelligent and sexy Joan Bennett, who is amazing in the scene where she is under the canoe with a football player, and then back on shore with her wet dress showing everything she's got, pre-code. Wow! And then there's Joe E. Brown, who in those days speed-read a a script and tossed it aside. Watch for the scene with the lovers before, across, under and behind the fountain; the hand-held (!) camera following the lovers through the trees; the amateur actors/football players in so many encounters with Bennett. The plot of this film deals with sexual recruitment of football players, which reflects uncomfortably on current issues on the Colorado campus. Not a good movie by any means, but it has great acting, great direction and a few good laughs. Made by young people with an astonishing quantity of talent, way back when it was still possible to make a stale story shine. 1930!