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Information
- Year
- 1931
- Runtime
- 74 min.
- Director
- Paul L. Stein
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 119
- Checks
- 52
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 1.9% (1:52)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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Film Noir World
It's slow and the acting is nothing to write home about, but this is a fine pre-code film about an independent girl resisting the moral conventions of the hypocritical upperclass.
People looking for pre-code skin won't be disappointed with Constance Bennet playing a nude painter model. She can be seen fully undressed within the first 10 minutes of the film, albeit from enough distance to avoid showing any real detail.
About halfway, there is a fantastic hedonistic party scene with all attendants in obviously high spirits inncluding really big cakes and scantilly dressed girls.
The highlight and most interesting bit of the film is a dialogue near the end of the film between Bennet and her soon-to-be father in law, in which they discuss how to maintain freedom in a society ruled by conventions.
In the end 'convention' seems to have the upper hand, but the final scene is ambiguous enough to leave that decision to the viewer's discretion. 10 years ago -
