# Recaptured Love

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{{short description|1930 film}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
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{{Infobox film
|name = Recaptured Love
|image = Recaptured_Love_1930_Poster.jpg
|producer =
|director = [John G. Adolfi](/source/John_G._Adolfi)
|writer = [Charles Kenyon](/source/Charles_Kenyon) based on the play ''Misdeal'' by [Basil Woon](/source/Basil_Woon)
|starring = [John Halliday](/source/John_Halliday_(actor))<br>[Belle Bennett](/source/Belle_Bennett)<br>[Dorothy Burgess](/source/Dorothy_Burgess)<br>[Junior Durkin](/source/Junior_Durkin)
|music =
|cinematography = [John Stumar](/source/John_Stumar)
|editing = [James Gibbon](/source/James_Gibbon_(film_editor))
|distributor = [Warner Bros. Pictures](/source/Warner_Bros._Pictures)
|released = {{Film date|1930|07|08}}
|runtime = 77 minutes
|language = English
|country = United States}}

'''''Recaptured Love''''' is a 1930 early talkie [pre-Code](/source/pre-Code) musical drama film based on the play ''Misdeal'' by [Basil Woon](/source/Basil_Woon) about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.

==Plot==
A 50-year-old married man goes with his wife and son to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

==Cast==
*[Belle Bennett](/source/Belle_Bennett) as Helen Parr 
*[John Halliday](/source/John_Halliday_(actor)) as Brentwood Parr
*[Dorothy Burgess](/source/Dorothy_Burgess) as Peggy Price 
*[Richard Tucker](/source/Richard_Tucker_(actor)) as Rawlings 
*[Junior Durkin](/source/Junior_Durkin) as Henry Parr 
*[Brooks Benedict](/source/Brooks_Benedict) as Pat

==Preservation==
The film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by [Associated Artists Productions](/source/Associated_Artists_Productions) in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.<ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/filmlist/title.asp?film_id=34834 Noted: Recaptured Love] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221001542/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/filmlist/title.asp?film_id=34834 |date=December 21, 2014 }}, wisconsinhistory.org; accessed July 23, 2015.</ref> It is also preserved in the Library of Congress collection.<ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.150 c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref>

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0021289}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{John G. Adolfi}}

Category:1930 films
Category:Warner Bros. films
Category:American comedy-drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by John G. Adolfi
Category:1930 comedy-drama films
Category:1930 English-language films
Category:1930 American films
Category:English-language comedy-drama films

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