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8 March 1931 (USA) morePlot:
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
The independent woman before she was silenced moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Betty Compson | ... | June |
| John Darrow | ... | Russell Courtney |
| Gilbert Emery | ... | Sir Gerald Courtney |
| Margaret Livingston | ... | Berthine Waller |
| Ivan Lebedeff | ... | Nikolai Rabinoff |
| Edgar Norton | ... | Dobbs - Sir Gerald's Butler |
| Daphne Pollard | ... | Millie - Apartment House Maid |
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72 minCountry:
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate number not assigned) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)Fun Stuff
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[first lines]First Bobby: [a dark, foggy street in London. Two bobbies are observing a young woman walking along furtively] New one, isn't she Albert?
Albert, Second Bobby: Must be, or she wouldn't be out on a night like this. No weather for a dog.
First Bobby: Nor for no cat, neither!
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I agree with the other reviewers: This isn't a great movie because it is too stage bound, the plot is far-fetched, the London setting unconvincing (why not New York?), and some of the acting is wooden or uneven. However, John Darrow is convincing as a talented young man a little too enslaved by his passions, and he is sexually alive and compelling. Betty Compson is great - hers is the performance that make this and so many other pre-Production Code movies worthwhile. She has no shame about who she is (nor has Margaret Livingston, who appears to have stepped out of Valley of the Dolls), and her last speech earns the movie a 7 in my book. She is completely liberated, though she knows how to and does pay lip-service to conventional morality. It is this combination, the lip-service combined with the complete independence, that makes this pre-Production Code movie (among many) so radical. Her final scene eloquently gives the lie to conventional morality and left me agape. No need for the 1960s-lib genre with movies like this.