This Reckless Age

This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play The Goose Hangs High by Lewis Beach.^[1][2]

This Reckless Age
Directed by	Frank Tuttle
Written by	Lewis Beach (play The Goose Hangs High) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay)
Produced by	Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor
Starring	Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Cinematography	Henry Sharp
Music by	John Leipold
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 9, 1932 (1932-01-09)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

One of over 700 Paramount films controlled by Universal Pictures, which in 1948 purchased most of the 1928-1948 Paramount library.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Donald and Eunice Ingals' lives revolve around their children, Bradley and Lois. They have sacrificed and scrimped to give their kids the best, and the kids, thoughtless and young, give little in return except for a smile and thanks now and then.

When Christmas vacation comes, Bradley and Lois pop in on the family. Bradley has come to tell his father he is marrying Mary Burke, which is received rather badly by both parents, while Lois, prankish and impish, spends more of her visit home partying with school friends.

But when Donald finds himself being blamed for a business scandal, the children make serious efforts to save their father's reputation.

Cast

• Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Bradley Ingals
• Richard Bennett as Donald Ingals
• Peggy Shannon as Mary Burke
• Charles Ruggles as Goliath Whitney
• Frances Dee as Lois Ingals
• Frances Starr as Eunice Ingals
• Maude Eburne as Rhoda
• Allen Vincent as Pig Van Dyke
• Mary Carlisle as Cassandra Phelps
• David Landau as Matthew Daggett
• Reginald Barlow as Lester Bell
• George C. Pearce as John Burke
• Grady Sutton as Stepladder Schultz
• Harry Templeton as Monk Turner
• Berton Churchill as Banker
• Leonard Carey as Braithwaite (uncredited)

Critical Response

As reviewer Clara M. Sawdon opined in International Photographer: "Pictures such as this are rare because they are much more difficult to produce than sensational or spectacular ones, but they are welcome innovations, especially when accomplished with such satisfactory coordination of effort as herein evidenced."^[3]