Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.
Eddy Chandler
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
Ben Hall
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
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Sidney Miller
- Messenger
- (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe memory of Louis Lone aka Lipstick, reporter of The Yorker, was still in the mind of many people, in particular about free love. People having sex with several partners, as a result Kitty Green got pregnant, but in her case she only had sex with her friend and the man that she always loved Vic (Wallace Ford). In a heated discussion between them, he told her that he knew that she was pregnant and assumed that she had severals partners, he forgot that he also had sex with her. At the end he wanted to marry her and only them he learned that he was the father.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
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The Problems of the Rich Are Different Too, But That's Not This Movie's Concern
At a boarding house run by Maude Eburne, there's a lot of drama and comedy going on among the residents and staff. Most of the movie, however, centers around the triangle of gambler Wallace Ford, whose new wife, Mary Carlisle, wants him to get into a real business; and chorus line gypsy Dorothy Tree, his old girl friend, who's a few months along. Guess who the father is.
Given the year and the pretty good cast that Columbia could assemble for its programmers, there's a tendency to compare this to GRAND HOTEL. Perhaps that's what Columbia had in mind; after all, Keaton claimed he had pitched GRAND MILLS HOTEL, an all-star burlesque about a notorious Bowery flophouse, to Thalberg. If you look at it that way, it looks shoddy and ridiculous. If you stop and consider that the problems of the rich and famous are different than ours because they have money, and the problems of people without money might be just as important.... well, it's a strange and revolutionary idea to some, but it might have some truth in it.
It's too bad that director Albert Rogell is just competent, and has a typical Columbia budget. Still, DP Benjamin Kline offers some lovely two-shots of Mr. Ford and Miss Tree.
Given the year and the pretty good cast that Columbia could assemble for its programmers, there's a tendency to compare this to GRAND HOTEL. Perhaps that's what Columbia had in mind; after all, Keaton claimed he had pitched GRAND MILLS HOTEL, an all-star burlesque about a notorious Bowery flophouse, to Thalberg. If you look at it that way, it looks shoddy and ridiculous. If you stop and consider that the problems of the rich and famous are different than ours because they have money, and the problems of people without money might be just as important.... well, it's a strange and revolutionary idea to some, but it might have some truth in it.
It's too bad that director Albert Rogell is just competent, and has a typical Columbia budget. Still, DP Benjamin Kline offers some lovely two-shots of Mr. Ford and Miss Tree.
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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