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starring: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Alan Haledirected by: Robert Z. Leonard
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301978170
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630197817X
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 76 minutes
Sales Rank: 9421
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1931
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Every Gable Fan HAS to Watch This Movie
I was not expecting much when I sat down to watch this movie for the first time. It had received pretty mediocre reviews on this site, but I bought it regardless, simply because of the good price and because I am infatuated with Clark Gable. After watching this movie, I did not understand why people were so unimpressed with it. It is one of the prized movies in my collection.
This film is short and sweet, and gets directly to the point. Basically the plot revolves around Greta and Gable's ... Read More
Rating:  - Three Cheers for Robert Z. Leonard
I watched this movie the other night mainly because it starred Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. They're both in there but there weren't many others of note in the cast. This is actually a pretty standard mediocre movie EXCEPT that the director did an excellent job in putting the film together. He couldn't do much with the cast but he did a lot with the camera and subtle suggestion. For example, the film opens with a foundling's birth. We are given just enough information in a short conversation to tell ... Read More
Rating: - Garbo's Tortured Love For Rising Gable
There are some stars in Hollywood's history that by their sheer star power and magnetism are always able to transcend inferior material and create memorable work. Greta Garbo was one such performer and in "Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise", she succeeds in making a fairly ordinary storyline (based on an early "racy" novel by David Graham Phillips), great viewing with her convincing performance and commitment to making an incredible set of circumstances more acceptable. Produced in 1931 this early sound film ... Read More
Rating:  - OFFBEAT CASTING=MEDIOCRE FILM.
Garbo plays the illegitimate daughter of a brutal farmer (Jean Hersholt); he plans to marry her off to a low-class but wealthy farmer played by Alan Hale. Garbo (as Helga) runs off to escape her fate and hides out in a mountain cabin which belongs to young engineer Rodney Spencer (Gable, natch); they fall in love...The picture wasn't ever considered a box-office or artistic success, but it's a curio for those who would like to witness the unlikely pairing of two legends of the screen when they were young ... Read More
Rating:  - After a little of this, you'll want to be left alone too
A few years back, I was on a Clark Gable kick and went through many of his movies, so naturally, "Susan Lennox" was rented in due course. This is not a winner. Nope, Garbo was too bad to be endured this time, so I had to stop watching and returned to my dinner. You may differ, so view and decide for yourself.
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