Their Mad Moment

{{short description|1931 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | image = File:Their Mad Moment.jpg | name = Their Mad Moment | director = Chandler Sprague Hamilton MacFadden | producer = Al Rockett |based_on = ''Basquerie'' by Eleanor Mercein Kelly | writer =Lajos Bíró Leon Gordon John Farrow Paul Perez Lynn Starling | starring = Dorothy Mackaill Warner Baxter ZaSu Pitts | music = Richard Fall | cinematography = Daniel B. Clark Arthur L. Todd | editing = Alex Troffey | studio = Fox Film Corporation | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{film date|1931|7|12|}} | runtime = 55 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}

'''''Their Mad Moment''''' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy drama film directed by Chandler Sprague and starring Dorothy Mackaill, Warner Baxter and ZaSu Pitts. An uncredited Hamilton MacFadden also directed some scenes. It is based on the 1927 novel ''Basquerie'' by Eleanor Mercein Kelly.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7846 Detail view of Movies Page], afi.com; accessed August 9, 2015.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170446/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/113164/Their-Mad-Moment/overview?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar Their-Mad-Moment - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes], nytimes.com; accessed August 9, 2015.</ref><ref>Goble, Alan. "Their Mad Moment", The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. London: Bowker-Saur, 1999.</ref> A Spanish-language version ''Mi último amor'' was also produced.

==Plot== American Suzanne Stanley, short of money, takes her stepdaughter Emily to Biarritz in order to find her a wealthy husband. She pushes her towards the dull Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but Emily is drawn instead to a poor Basque boatman Esteban. She agrees to go with him to the mountains to meet his family, intending to live romantically for a few days to compensate for a lifetime with Sir Harry. She knows she cannot cope with the harsh, peasant life in the mountains, and slips away to Biarritz. He reappears on the day of the wedding and takes her away on a yacht for England, revealing that he has made a fortune in America.

==Cast== * Dorothy Mackaill as Emily Stanley * Warner Baxter as Esteban Cristera * ZaSu Pitts as Miss Dibbs * Nance O'Neil as Grand Mere * Lawrence Grant as Sir Harry Congers * Leon Janney as Narcio * John St. Polis as Hotel Manager * Nella Walker as Suzanne Stanley * Mary Doran as Stancia

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0022476|title=Their Mad Moment}}

Category:1931 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Fox Film films Category:American comedy films Category:1931 comedy films Category:Films directed by Hamilton MacFadden Category:Films set in France Category:Films based on American novels Category:1931 English-language films Category:1931 American films Category:English-language comedy films