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7 July 1933 (USA)
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Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years. | add synopsis
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Con Couple Shifts into Sap Mode
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Jean Harlow | ... | Ruby Adams | |
| Clark Gable | ... | Eddie Hall | |
| Stuart Erwin | ... | Al Simpson | |
| Dorothy Burgess | ... | Gypsy Angecon | |
| Muriel Kirkland | ... | Bertha Dillion | |
| Garry Owen | ... | Slim (Eddie's partner) | |
| Barbara Barondess | ... | Sadie Cline | |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Miss Tuttle (reformatory matron) | |
| Inez Courtney | ... | Mazie (reformatory inmate) | |
| Blanche Friderici | ... | Mrs. Wagner | |
| Helen Shipman | ... | Miss Davis | |
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| Guy Kibbee | ... | (scenes deleted) | |
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87 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved (certificate number not assigned at release)
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Referenced in Kansas City (1996)
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St. Louis Blues
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This movie down-shifts from 4th into 1st without bothering with 3rd or 2nd, grinding gears all the way to the sappy, b-movie finish-line. The con at the beginning is easily the best and cleverest part of the movie. That is worth seeing. The scene with Harlow in the bathtub occurs so fast, you may miss it. Definitely not worth all the ballyhoo provided by Robert Osborne in his TCM intro to this bad-to-mediocre confusion. There is no real conflict, and all of the characters in this supposed fringe society turn out to be saints - especially the unbelievable character, Al. I wonder if he's got a job for me in Cincinnati?