Too many fans seem to be blown away

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The Golden Arrow casts Bette Davis and George Brent as a typical 30s heiress who abounded in so many films and the reporter who married her. Heiresses and reporters, ever since It Happened One Night they were together in movies like ham and eggs.But there's an interesting twist on it here. Davis is a pseudo-heiress hired by Henry O'Neill to play his daughter and live the good life as a walking breathing advertisement for his cosmetics. Of course reporters are to be avoided as they tend to get curious and ask embarrassing questions. But Davis falls for Brent and they marry.After which like Tyrone Power in Love Is News and That Wonderful Urge he becomes the object of press scrutiny. Now George knows how the boyfriends of Madonna and Paris Hilton feel.This screwball comedy is not the best of material for Davis and Brent who certainly did some classics later on. But it's passably amusing and Bette's fans will like it.

In an era when Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard were all making an effort to show the screwy rich girl trying to deal with wacky families, gold digging men and boggling business careers with relationships, the new big star on the block, Bette Davis, decided to join them. Fresh from her Oscar Winning role in "Dangerous", Davis had not yet set the box office world on its ear, although that was imminent. Warner Brothers, not sure yet how to handle the rising temperamental diva to be, tried her in a variety of types of films, and for a few of those, she went down "Screwball Lane" to show how those popped-eyed gestures could add oomph to witty wisecracks and wacky situations.Here, she's an heiress surrounded by typical social-climbing men and to get around them, she convinces a struggling reporter (George Brent) to marry her for convenience. She already has a fiancée, it seems, but he's too droll and effete to take seriously. Brent's the type who isn't above using a little manly force to keep his women in line, and while he agrees to the charade, he's not about to let her control him. She, it seems too, isn't above a little slumming, and in one of the film's most memorable scenes, ends up with him on a twirling ferris wheel. Later, there's confusion concerning black eyes which each of them get (memorably utilized on one of the film's posters), and it is obvious that this cave man stuff is exactly what she needs to bring her even slightly down to earth.While Davis is of course best known for drama, she had been tried out by Warners in comedy before, mostly supporting parts, and here, she is a game girl in a genre she would infrequently try again with sometimes mixed results. George Brent, who co-starred with most of the actresses I mention above (and frequently with Davis during their long stays at Warners), is as comfortable in this type of role as he would be in their romantic dramas, and it is the two stars who make this film worth watching. The rest of the cast (including major character star Eugene Palette) is pretty much wasted although they get brief moments to shine.

I knew nothing of this movie before starting to watch it however within minutes it became quickly apparent that she is surrounded by a cast below her league and I began to wonder if this was Bette Davis's last Warner Bros picture which indeed it was.Prickly, fastidious Bette Davis knew her own worth and while other stars - see Rosalind Russel in "The Women" - could clown as well as be serious, Davis's haughtiness and seriousness about her craft made this an absolute no no. Here amiable George Brent was no "A List" star and some of the support is decidedly mediocre. In the movie she has longish exchanges with, and must submit to being I think playfully slapped on the back by, an actor some leagues below her. She was an actress who could and did frequently signal boredom and distaste when the plot has her in substandard company. In terms of fellow cast it is clear that she is here but the script demands that she doesn't indicate or feel that. As a viewer I thought the movie was more than she could - or deserved to - take. That Warners did not see that is curious. Perhaps their sense hitherto of owning, contractually, their stars who had to do what they were told. Perhaps it is hindsight - what the world came to know later of her character and talent. "Now Voyager" has her cast as a drab - she was not vain about her appearance, but in that, cast with the superbly charming, intelligent talented Claude Raines she had a part and co-star equally worthy of her talent. She was surely right to demand that the parts and co-stars matched her own high standards. Classic movies fully worthy of her talent were the result.

Weak film about facial cream heiress Daisy Appleby (Bette Davis) and her escapades in Florida, where she lounges around her yacht in unflattering swimsuit, and gets herself chased around the Casino by all sorts of European barons and dukes after her for her money. When she meets a reporter (George Brent) who is such a normal, straight-laced, and somewhat handsome All-American guy, she quickly falls for him. Then, to get the fortune hunters off her back, she convinces him to enter into a "marriage of convenience" with her, but in actuality, she is in love with him - and, not completely who she seems either.Well, this movie is pretty so-so. Bette Davis is great, as usual, but George Brent is a real stiff here, and the actress who plays Daisy's rival, "the richest girl in the world", is really, not a very good actress. Eugene Palette adds a spark of life to this film, but, unfortunately, only has a few brief scenes. Probably best for Bette Davis fans only.