The Following contains SPOILERS:
As it's been pointed out by other reviewers this is a Pre-Code movie, released before the code took effect 7/1/1934...however the impending restrictions were known to all and had to influence how this movie was made.
I did note in Ginger's dance number in the stage show, the chorus girls wore skin tight, transparent briefs. The film basically comes down to the following: Good guy (millionaire Stream...William Warren) is a lonely, doting father meets and romances Bad Girl Ginger. Meanwhile Mrs. Stream (Mary Astor) is too busy being Mrs. Socialite to attend to hubby or son. Warren starts out by trying to not get involved with drop dead gorgeous Ginger...but man and the flesh are weak. Her slimy boyfriend (J.Carroll Nash) tries to blackmail him and a double homicide ensues.
Stream then tries to foolishly and clumsily cover things up...but gets caught, tried and since he's a good guy and rich...gets off scot free, wifey sees the error of her ways and they both pledge their love and then sail off on a luxury cruise.
Perhaps if more time were spent in the courtroom before a quick resolution,this would have been stronger. Perhaps writer and director were trying to tell us the rich can always get off.
It follows the moral code that was on it's way. Bad Girl Ginger must and does die. Good Guy and Good Girl reconcile and learn from their mistakes. Good, watchable...but could have bee better.
As it's been pointed out by other reviewers this is a Pre-Code movie, released before the code took effect 7/1/1934...however the impending restrictions were known to all and had to influence how this movie was made.
I did note in Ginger's dance number in the stage show, the chorus girls wore skin tight, transparent briefs. The film basically comes down to the following: Good guy (millionaire Stream...William Warren) is a lonely, doting father meets and romances Bad Girl Ginger. Meanwhile Mrs. Stream (Mary Astor) is too busy being Mrs. Socialite to attend to hubby or son. Warren starts out by trying to not get involved with drop dead gorgeous Ginger...but man and the flesh are weak. Her slimy boyfriend (J.Carroll Nash) tries to blackmail him and a double homicide ensues.
Stream then tries to foolishly and clumsily cover things up...but gets caught, tried and since he's a good guy and rich...gets off scot free, wifey sees the error of her ways and they both pledge their love and then sail off on a luxury cruise.
Perhaps if more time were spent in the courtroom before a quick resolution,this would have been stronger. Perhaps writer and director were trying to tell us the rich can always get off.
It follows the moral code that was on it's way. Bad Girl Ginger must and does die. Good Guy and Good Girl reconcile and learn from their mistakes. Good, watchable...but could have bee better.