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6.1/10   52 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Edwin Balmer (story)
George Draney (scenario) ...
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Release Date:
1 January 1930 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The shocking story of love for sale! more
Plot:
Jay Rountree, son of a wealthy manufacturer and young, rising businessman, gets caught up in a web involving... more | add synopsis
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Lurid and Badly Acted, But... more (5 total)

Cast

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ... Jay Rountree
Jeanette Loff ... Ellen Powell
Judith Barrie ... Leeda Cather
Marie Prevost ... Diana Hoster
John St. Polis ... John Rountree
Sammy Blum ... Sam Metten
Harry Northrup ... Robert Lowry
Almeda Fowler ... Maude Lindsay
Hal Price ... Lew Albans
Charles Giblyn ... Lawrence Doyle
Sidney D'Albrook ... Investigator
Lucien Prival ... Paul Newcast
Florence Dudley ... Miss Manning
Earl Burtnett ... Orchestra Leader (as Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Orchestra and Trio)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dangerous Business
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Runtime:
67 min | USA:61 min (re-release)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
UK:PG (DVD rating) (2003) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film holds the record for the longest transfer from banned status to original release in UK history. It was rejected for cinema in 1930 by the BBFC and remained unreleased until 2003 when it was passed with a PG rating. more
Quotes:
Ellen Powell: Di, I am in no mood for any of your smart remarks! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Hollywood Uncensored (1987) more
Soundtrack:
Farewell more

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10 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Lurid and Badly Acted, But..., 22 December 2007
8/10
Author: drednm

This lurid pre-coder is about the use of "party girls" in big business. The idea is that business men are wined and dined at wild parties where there are available girls.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as a college boy who attends a party and is picked up by evil Leeda (Judith Barrie). Next morning she pretends she has been "wronged" and what's he gonna do about it? The sap marries her only to discover that she wants a business deal for her real boy friend in order to Fairbanks to divorce her. What a tramp! His dad's secretary (Jeanette Loff, who sings a couple songs), a reformed "party girl," is heartbroken and so returns to the party circuit only to get caught in a police raid.

This is a pretty racy film even for 1930. There's once scene where the girls fill a fountain with perfume and then the guys grab Marie Prevost (who does NOT get billing in this film for some reason), strip here and bathe her in the fountain while everyone watches.

The acting is just awful, with Fairbanks and Barrie turning in hideous performances, but the film is so suggestive and trampy, it's impossible not to watch.

John St. Polis the father, Almeda Fowler (don't call me madam!) is the madam, Louise Carver is the masseuse, and Lucien Prival is Newcast.

On the plus side, the music is quite good, and there that freight elevator that keeps delivering cars into the party living room!

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