The Pretenders

Name: The Pretenders
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1916-08-21
Rating: 9

If the Man You Loved Was a Thief OR YOU THOUGHT HIM ONE-WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

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20%

Tomatometer

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38%

Popcornmeter

9.0

TMDB

Storyline

Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the behest of his social-climbing wife Maria (Kate Blancke) and daughter Helen (Emmy Wehlen). But like Jiggs in the comic strip, Pettingill never loses his common touch, and one evening he goes out on a toot with his new chauffeur Hubert Stanwood (Paul Gordon).

Details

DirectorGeorge D. Baker

ReleasedAug 21, 1916

StatusReleased

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

0 fresh · 6 rotten

Katie Walsh

RTLos Angeles TimesOct 4, 2019

Is this a film about bohemian artists or a parody of a film about bohemian artists? Because if we're supposed to take this laughably trite and sexist claptrap seriously, one has to laugh.

Glenn Kenny

RTNew York TimesOct 3, 2019

It descends into several discrete modes of misogyny.

Jordan Mintzer

RTThe Hollywood ReporterJun 28, 2019

Flat-footed performances, a shoddy script, sloppy filmmaking and faux-clever homages to directors like Godard, Truffaut and Bertolucci that will probably only entice viewers in, well, the first year of film school, should they happen to see it.

Todd Jorgenson

RTCinemalogueNov 29, 2019

... as shallow as its characters, who aren't worthy of our emotional investment.