Finally starting on the 1930's again. Watching four Wellman's first, just finished Night Nurse next i'm watching Safe In Hell, Heroes For Sale and Wild Boys of the Road. Night Nurse was awesome. Despite watching a fair amount of 30's films i'm not really familiar with pre-code ones so seeing the women half naked so much was actually pretty shocking. It was like an unintended joke in itself since their underwear was still so conservative, it's just crazy imagining that being scandalous. Think i'm going to read into pre-code soon, i'm interested in who were the many objectors to the content and if there was major objections to implementing strict rules. I'm guessing the filmmakers were the main ones as it was obviously restricting them artistically, although some were probably clean cut and against the more risque directors. I'm also interested in the most scandalous films that were major catalysts in ending the pre-code era. I've never had a problem with the more clean restricted classic era but i do wonder what would have come about if directors had more freedom. I'm guessing there'd be good and bad, Hitch's films would have probably been sleazy porno's :laugh.
LMAO at how shady and sinister this got, i was expecting a screwball comedy. This was only the second time i'd seen Stanwyck after Double Indemnity which is one of my favourite performances. She was great again, loved the scene she shouted at the mother then slapped the dude, she was a real caring badass in this. That bucket throw was hilarious. Had no idea Clark Gable was in this and it took me a minute to realize it was him without the moustache, only seen his leading roles in It Happened One Night and Gone With The Wind so it was weird seeing a small villain role from him. He was really goofy in his first scene but i liked his suave charm coming through while he was standing smirking in the doorway. Also is it just me or was he dressed like a Confederate Soldier in the last scene? I liked Ben Lyon too, he seemed ridiculous but it worked a lot i especially love how it turned out "the ride" was real Really good looking forward to more from Wellman. Kinda want to rewatch Wings now i think i'd like it alot more now.
Oh yeah just remembered the reason it was mentioned in this thread was because Joan Blondell was in it. She was pretty good, she was fun as her friend during the first half it just wasn't an important role so she isn't that memorable compared to the other three.
LMAO at how shady and sinister this got, i was expecting a screwball comedy. This was only the second time i'd seen Stanwyck after Double Indemnity which is one of my favourite performances. She was great again, loved the scene she shouted at the mother then slapped the dude, she was a real caring badass in this. That bucket throw was hilarious. Had no idea Clark Gable was in this and it took me a minute to realize it was him without the moustache, only seen his leading roles in It Happened One Night and Gone With The Wind so it was weird seeing a small villain role from him. He was really goofy in his first scene but i liked his suave charm coming through while he was standing smirking in the doorway. Also is it just me or was he dressed like a Confederate Soldier in the last scene? I liked Ben Lyon too, he seemed ridiculous but it worked a lot i especially love how it turned out "the ride" was real Really good looking forward to more from Wellman. Kinda want to rewatch Wings now i think i'd like it alot more now.
Oh yeah just remembered the reason it was mentioned in this thread was because Joan Blondell was in it. She was pretty good, she was fun as her friend during the first half it just wasn't an important role so she isn't that memorable compared to the other three.