... and that is unusual since it is a film made several years after the transition to sound - 1933 to be exact.
The rumor is that this film was destroyed intentionally by Warner Bros. in 1943 to get on the good side of head censor Joe Breen so that the censors would allow the studio to release other films. But other historians make the case that this was unlikely. Warner Brothers own vault negative records state: Junked 12/27/48 . The 1948 junking was solely due to nitrate deterioration, which left unchecked can create an explosive mix and major fire hazards. The question is then - why are all other copies missing in action even the trailers? Especially since records show this film was being shown on the bottom of double bills into 1937, long after the code began to be enforced, and was also being shown in Europe, which did not have such a puritanical code as the US, into 1942.
The synopsis is:
"Extra-marital fun and games abound at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Starring Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Patricia Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, and Grant Mitchell. Screenplay by Robert Lord. Story by Peter Milne. Directed by Archie Mayo. Distributed by Warner Brothers."
The script survives, the music used in the film survives, and some stills survive. The shooting script does have non stop jokes, but the famous bestiality bit about a goat and the drunken conventioneers is actually reduced to a bunch of them trying to get a goat onboard the homebound train with them. It is probably no worse than the raunchiest bits of "Baby Face" or "Gold Diggers of 1933" from the same year.
The rumor is that this film was destroyed intentionally by Warner Bros. in 1943 to get on the good side of head censor Joe Breen so that the censors would allow the studio to release other films. But other historians make the case that this was unlikely. Warner Brothers own vault negative records state: Junked 12/27/48 . The 1948 junking was solely due to nitrate deterioration, which left unchecked can create an explosive mix and major fire hazards. The question is then - why are all other copies missing in action even the trailers? Especially since records show this film was being shown on the bottom of double bills into 1937, long after the code began to be enforced, and was also being shown in Europe, which did not have such a puritanical code as the US, into 1942.
The synopsis is:
"Extra-marital fun and games abound at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Starring Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Patricia Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, and Grant Mitchell. Screenplay by Robert Lord. Story by Peter Milne. Directed by Archie Mayo. Distributed by Warner Brothers."
The script survives, the music used in the film survives, and some stills survive. The shooting script does have non stop jokes, but the famous bestiality bit about a goat and the drunken conventioneers is actually reduced to a bunch of them trying to get a goat onboard the homebound train with them. It is probably no worse than the raunchiest bits of "Baby Face" or "Gold Diggers of 1933" from the same year.