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Christopher Strong | Horny on Main

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Mar 29, 2021
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Credit: RKO

Tom Atkinson

The funniest thing about Dorothy Arzner’s 1933 film for RKO, Christopher Strong, is its name. The title character is played by Colin Clive, whose charm belies his emptiness, and reveals Arzner and writer Zoë Akins’ ploy at making him the purported centre of the film’s universe. He is less a person than a point around which the res…

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