Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
Samuel S. Hinds
- Father Doran
- (as Samuel Hinds)
Tom Herbert
- Salesman Ogelthorpe
- (as Tom Francis)
Wade Boteler
- River Boat Purser
- (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
- River Boat Steward
- (uncredited)
Jane Darwell
- Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron
- (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
- Hoyt - Paige's Secretary
- (uncredited)
John Larkin
- Man Meeting Released Prisoner
- (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
- Mr. Jones
- (uncredited)
Eileen Percy
- Woman
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
George Reed
- Alice - Dan's Shipboard Cook
- (uncredited)
Mildred Washington
- Genevieve - Lorry's Maid
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe last of four films co-starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea, along with Born to Love (1931), The Common Law (1931), and Rockabye (1932).
- GoofsWhen Lorry is in her room on the steamboat, there is a fur coat on the top bunker resting up against the bedpost. On the following cuts, the orientation of the coat keeps changing. The matching hat on the top bunker also changes orientation.
- Quotes
Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron: As Head Matron of his Institution, in all my experience, I have never come...
Lorry Evans: Save your wind, save your wind, you might want to go sailing sometime.
- SoundtracksYou're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline
(1903) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Armstrong
Lyric by Richard H. Gerard
Sung a cappella and offscreen by Matt McHugh and Pert Kelton
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Pretty risqué for '33....lot'sa fun !!
Actually, not a bad film for an old antique. Bennett and Kelton are two prosties with no shame in their game. The films open with the girls having served their time---either for soliciting or theft--and getting booted out of the clink. Bennett rolls a drunk for his bankroll aboard a barge headed down the river. She gets busted by an adamant Matt McHugh, and jumps overboard rather than face the music and go back and do more time. She is fished out of the river by Joel Macrae, who skippers a cotton barge. Despite his kindness to her, she rolls him too--for the whole payroll...and skips. But this time, her conscience gets to her...and she discovers love. She pays him back...instead of blowing a fuse, he proposes to her. But she is busy milking another sucker, a sugar daddy she meets by way of deceit. He falls for her, and takes her in, giving her some stability. But...love will out...she's ready and willing to throw it all away because she loves the cotton barge skipper. But , she has a past that needs to be reconciled, and sugar daddy beats her over the head with it. So, with love in her heart, but with low self esteem and fear of rejection by the lover she has at long last found, she dis-appears, even gets a job ! Remarkable. Macrae finally finds her, and what happens is the stuff fairy tales are made of. The film is a worthwhile watch, though I am certain that audiences of the early '30s did not look upon it the same way they would some half a century later with the likes of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Pert Kelton gets special mention...she steals her share of scenes and was quite a siren of the screen during that period...she had sex-appeal that oozed and dripped from the screen. Maybe it did her more harm than good, but she is one of the sexiest women on the screen during this period. One line she utters that I really like is "...I'll take vanilla", one of the strident wisecracks of the screen during this time. Also, Mildred Washington appears, playing a maid. Mildred did not shuffle, and was a star in her own right on the Black circuit. Her unfortunate early death robbed us of a presence on film that was both intelligent and vivacious. See this film...despite its age, it deals with the subject matter realistically, for the most part, is well made, and very entertaining.
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- Oct 28, 2010
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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