FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION Vol 1- Red Headed Woman,Waterloo Bridge--DVD

Description: FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION - VOLUME 1 Three classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking LANGUAGE: English SUBTITLES: English, French, Spanish In the early 1930s, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution . In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. BABY FACE Black & White Running time approximately 72 minutes BABY FACE is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood. Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works as a barmaid in her father's factory-town saloon where she learns to deal with the unwanted advances of male customers. When her father dies, she moves to New York City with her maid, Chico (Theresa Harris) to become a ruthless gold digger. First she meets office boy Jimmy McCoy (a young John Wayne) who helps her get a job at the Gotham Trust Company. From there, she seduces and discards various men (George Brent, Donald Cook, Henry Kolker) as she sleeps her way to the top of the company. Jealousy between the men causes a murder scene, so Lily takes her furs and jewels and moves to Paris with Chico. This collection boasts both the Original Theatrical Release AND a Prerelease Version, recently discovered and restored by the Library of Congress, before censors of the day demanded the elimination of several scenes. RED HEADED WOMAN Black & White Running time approximately 79 minutes Only Jean Harlow could have made gold digger Lil Andrews a sympathetic protagonist. Lil is the classic girl "from the wrong side of the tracks" -- she's a secretary with a bootlegger boyfriend and a wise-cracking roommate name Sal (Una Merkel, who was a delightful foil to Harlow in several films). But Lil has ambitions -- She's "strictly on the level, like a flight of stairs," as one character says. She plans to snag Bill Legendre (Chester Morris), son of the venerable company head -- no matter that he's happily married to his childhood sweetheart, Irene. Lil throws herself at Legendre until he can resist no longer and she snares him. But things don't work out as planned. Instead of making a big splash in society, she bombs -- so she casts her attention ever upwards to Gaersate, a coal king. But a wrench is thrown into her scheme when she goes mad for his French chauffeur (Charles Boyer). "I've fallen in love and I'm going to be married!" she gleefully tells Sal, before explaining that it's the chauffeur she loves and Gaersate whom she will marry. However, Legendre Sr has put a detective on Lil's tail and he shows Gaersate a handful of compromising photos. It looks like her game is up, but the last we see of the mercenary Miss, she's leaving a fashionable Paris racetrack with a bearded old sugar daddy -- and her beloved chauffeur driving them away. WATERLOO BRIDGE Black & White Running time approximately 81 minutes In this 1931 original, the heroine is nothing more or less than a streetwalker, patrolling London's Water Bridge during World War I in hopes of picking up the occasional soldier. She falls in love with one of her clients a young officer from an aristocratic family. Gently informed by the young woman's mother that any marriage would be absolutely impossible, the streetwalker tearfully agrees, letting her beau down gently before ending her own life by walking directly into the path of an enemy bomb. Check out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favorites list!

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