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Love Affair
Dorothy Mackaill as Carol and Bogie as Jim Leonard	Love Affair is a modestly entertaining but somewhat slow moving B grade romance/drama, the pacing issues of which are all the more interesting when you consider that the film is only 68 minutes in duration. The plot centers around Jim Leonard (Bogie), a down to earth but passionate young pilot and engineer who in his own off-work time has invented a revolutionary new plane engine. Leonard dreams of starting his own engineering company and getting his engine in planes all over the world. While working for his boss and friend Gilligan (played by Jack Kennedy), Jim is asked to take a spoilt rich woman, Carol Owen (played by Dorothy Mackaill), up for her first flying lesson in a plane. In spite if their personality differences, the two soon establish an affection for one another and an unlikely romance ensues.
Unbeknownst to Jim however, Carol has another suitor, a wealthy businessman by the name of Bruce Hardy (played by Hale Hamilton), who is also linked (again unbeknownst to Jim) rather luridly to Jim's sister, a trampish Broadway wanabee (played by Astrid Allwyn). In an attempt to help Jim, Carol secretly sends Hardy to him as a potential investor in his engineering company. Well naturally the plot gets quite messy as all these relationship strands unfold, with Jim's attempts to launch his fledgling engineering company falling into turmoil, and his and Carol's future seeming very very shaky... Bogie was good but unexeptional in this film, with best acting honors going to Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Kennedy. Other performances of note are Halliwell Hobbs as Carol's caring butler and Bradley Page as the creepy pimp-like broadway agent who leeches off Jim's sister. An interesting piece of trivia regarding this film is that it attracted the attention of the government censors at the time, who took offense at a particular scene which strongly insinuated an act of non-marital sex. Despite this objection the producers managed to keep said scene in the film.

Shot in Black & White. 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio. Not released on home video but can be seen on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) as of the time of writing this review.