IMDb plot summary: Club champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile, Lora's friend Angie Howard chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Directed by Lloyd Corrigan and Laurence Schwab. Starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, and Zelma O'Neal.
Follow Thru is a 1930 romantic comedy about a talented female golfer pretending she doesn't know anything about it so the famous golfer she's in love with will teach her. It's an early color musical and is a surprising look at female athletes in the 30s. While the individual pieces of this don't necessarily stand out as anything special, the concept of the story is a lot more interesting than most of the 1930 romances I've been watching. My biggest beef with this movie, though, is the almost unwatchably irritating subplot where Jack Haley is unable to talk to women. I found it, as the kiddos say or have said, so "cringe" that I did actually wince a few times when the character reappeared on screen. So overall, while I wanted to appreciate what this film was bringing, there weren't enough positives and at least one enormous negative that pulled it down.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Follow Thru < The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Follow Thru > Beauty and the Bestie
Follow Thru < No Highway in the Sky
Follow Thru < Master Harold and the Boys (2010)
Follow Thru > The Forger
Follow Thru > Code 46
Follow Thru > Hide and Seek
Follow Thru > Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Follow Thru > The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Follow Thru > The Limey
Follow Thru > Paradise
Follow Thru > Murder!
Final spot: #2632 out of 3828, or 31%.
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