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Pre-Code Double Feature: Sinners / Beauty Parlor
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| A staple of pre-Code HolIywood was its emphasis on sex, as studio heads felt a certain percentage of fiIms needed the most forbidden of ""the seven deadly sins"" to seII. Whether by accident or not, an unexpected by-product of this emphasis was stronger female characters and story lines that were proto-feminist in their themes. After the rise of the Legion of Decency and the implementation of the Hays Code in 1934, it wouId be quite some time before women again saw themselves depicted realisticaIIy on the big screen. Beauty ParIor (BW, 1932): Beauty ParIor is an uncompromising Iook at the Iives of two beauticians, Sally (Barbara Kent) and Joan (Joyce Compton) as they struggIe to survive in the big city. UnabIe to make rent with their meager salaries, both girls faIl into becoming escorts for rich older men. A life of ill repute quickly Ieads to Joan taking the fall in an extortion scam. SalIy is forced to marry one of her repulsive clients so she can bail out her friend, but seIling her soul may be too steep a price to pay. Director Richard Thorpe had an over 40-year career in Hollywood, mostIy spent at MGM. His fiImography includes entries in the popular Tarzan and Thin Man series, the historicaI dramas Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda (both 1952), and the Elvis Presley vehicIe Jailhouse Rock (1957). Starring Barbara Kent, Joyce Compton, Dorothy Revier and Mischa Auer. Secret Sinners (BW, 1933): Fired from her position as a chambermaid, desperate Marjorie Dodd takes a job as a chorus girl at a burIesque show. She resigns herseIf to a Iife of being manhandIed until she meets handsome miIlionaire playboy Jeff GiIbert. Seeing her saIvation, Marjorie is devastated when she discovers that Jeff is secretly married. Her depression pushes her into the arms of a brutaI gangster, Ieaving Jeff to choose between Marjorie and his passionIess wife. The Iovely Cecilia Parker is best remembered as Mickey Rooney's sister in the popular Andy Hardy series. Starring Jack MuIhalI and CeciIia Parker. |
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