The first two I tried, I didn’t stick with long enough to see her part
What were they?
Piracy does eventually feature, but we START with… a contemporary (to 1931) football game?
One of the qualities I really enjoy in pre-Code movies is their ability to start with something like football and end with something like piracy, having zoomed cheerfully through multiple other genres in the meantime.
I mean, the braless stuff is fine, too. But I am really amused by movies that are actually about six movies occupying the same existential space.
There is an extended subplot involving the two criminals who are working with John, during which the film ventures into what I would have to call proto-noir territory. Lots of sharp shadows and murky morals. The relationship between the two frays under the extreme stress and danger of their doublecross, but even as they cynically snipe, their love for each other shines through. Especially good work here by actress Mayo Methot.
If I am correctly understanding from IMDb that the two criminals are Ned Sparks and Mayo Methot, I may watch the film just for them. I love Sparks and unfortunately know Methot only through her high-profile trash fire of a marriage of Humphrey Bogart.
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What were they?
Piracy does eventually feature, but we START with… a contemporary (to 1931) football game?
One of the qualities I really enjoy in pre-Code movies is their ability to start with something like football and end with something like piracy, having zoomed cheerfully through multiple other genres in the meantime.
I mean, the braless stuff is fine, too. But I am really amused by movies that are actually about six movies occupying the same existential space.
There is an extended subplot involving the two criminals who are working with John, during which the film ventures into what I would have to call proto-noir territory. Lots of sharp shadows and murky morals. The relationship between the two frays under the extreme stress and danger of their doublecross, but even as they cynically snipe, their love for each other shines through. Especially good work here by actress Mayo Methot.
If I am correctly understanding from IMDb that the two criminals are Ned Sparks and Mayo Methot, I may watch the film just for them. I love Sparks and unfortunately know Methot only through her high-profile trash fire of a marriage of Humphrey Bogart.