Personal Property [VHS]
Personal Property opens with the Dabney's, a father-son ladies underwear team comprised of E.E. Clive and Reginald Owen, lamenting the release of Claude's (Owen) brother Raymond from prison. We learn that the Dabney's need money and Claude has a pidgeon named Crystal lined up for marriage so he and his father emphatically agree that she absolutely cannot learn about Raymond's embarrassing past or even his existence as a Dabney family member. Meanwhile, troublemaking Raymond turns out to be young and cocky Robert Taylor who's welcomed home by his loving mother (Crosman) and retires to a bath when his stiff brother and father happen home to confront him. Father Dabney offers Raymond a bribe to leave town, but Raymond isn't biting. We're told about his crime: Buying a motor car and then selling it without having paid for it. Raymond points out that that's what the Dabney's business does with ladies' underwear all day long. Claude and Father leave in a huff and Raymond finds out from his mother that Claude is engaged to a well off girl leaving Raymond to figure that a bargain has been struck between Claude and an old spinster. He kisses his mother good-bye and heads off to do some drinking. Raymond is taken aback by the beauty entering and seating herself next to him. It's Harlow.