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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569679641
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 308 minutes
Sales Rank: 9595
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1933
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Waterloo Bridge:On the eve of World War II a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.Baby Face:Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender literally floor by floor to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. When he complains of not seeing her she says: "I'm working so hard I have to go to bed early every night."Red-Headed Woman:Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 012569679641 Manufacturer No: 67964
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Here are three films that couldn't and wouldn't have been made at any other time. Contrary to popular belief, the history of Hollywood permissiveness, what filmmakers could "get away with" on screen, is not a steadily rising graph from puritanical early days to the party-hearty present. In the early 1930s, a national mood of shock over the stock market crash and impatience with Prohibition licensed a relaxation of the movie industry's self-censorship policies. Sexuality--always a driving force in movie plots and characterizations, even when repressed--became a more explicit presence, with costuming that sometimes pushed the envelope for exposure of epidermis and dialogue that could be shockingly blunt.
Baby Face (1933) was made at Warner Bros., the golden-age studio with the grittiest style and the most street cred. The gutsy Barbara Stanwyck stars as a young woman from a factory town who hops a boxcar to the big city and sleeps her way to the top--a progress famously indexed by a camera ascending floor by floor outside a Gotham office building as she trades up, one corporate suitor after another. No other major-studio film was more explicit about sex as a tool and a commodity, yetBaby Face is curiously less sexy than any number of movies that weren't so outspoken about it. This TCM collection features both the theatrical-release version familiar for decades and a recently rediscovered preview version that is markedly superior, runs five minutes longer, and includes more sexual liaisons. It also happily lacks an absurd final scene that got tacked onto the release version to explain how the heroine learned to be content with a modest lifestyle.
Red-Headed Woman (1932) is arguably the raunchiest movie Jean Harlow made at MGM (though not as raunchy as her scenes in Howard Hughes' 1930 Hell's Angels). Unlike Stanwyck in Baby Face--a proletarian heroine grimly selling herself to beat capitalism and the patriarchy at their own game--Harlow's character brazenly relishes both the sex and the posh life it wins for her. The lion's share of this sardonic comedy, scripted by Anita Loos and an uncredited F. Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on Harlow's seduction of her married boss (Chester Morris) and the havoc she wreaks in his upper-crust world. Charles Boyer has a role (his first Hollywood credit) as a French chauffeur who knows how to give satisfaction, and the film's air of breezy ribaldry even allows the star a casual flash of bare breast.
The rarest item in the collection, the 1931 Universal version of Waterloo Bridge, has long been unseen because MGM bought the film in order to do a 1940 remake (starring Vivien Leigh) and locked the original away in the vault. Directed by James Whale the same year he did Frankenstein (1931), the picture charts the romance of a chorus-girl-turned-streetwalker (Mae Clarke) and a well-born young soldier (Kent Douglass) on brief furlough from the trenches during WWI. Apart from a zesty prelude in a London music hall and two scenes on the titular bridge, the film remains yoked to its talky theatrical source, a Robert E. Sherwood play flogging the hoary conceit that no fallen woman, however pure of heart, could be permitted to marry into a good family. Unlike the Hays Code-compliant remake, the film leaves no doubt how the heroine makes her living. --Richard T. Jameson
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It's amazing that these movies have never hit dvd before!!! They have crystal clear sound and picture with a documentary by Robert Osbourne. The thing that caught my attention upon this product was the pre-release version of Baby Face. Those few minutes of film that were cut are sooo essential.
If you like movies from the early 30's then you'll LOVE this collection. I reccomend it!
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Only Turner Entertainment would pull these out of the vaults, clean them up and offer them on DVD. Other than beating young children without just cause (such as spanking) and third degree methods by the police, the most notorious was the sexual situations. Dialogue that would not make us blush today, pushed the limits of decency back then.
In Baby Face (1933) Barbara Stanwyck has her [...] fondled and sold for sexual favors in a factory. This TCM collection features both the theatrical ... Read More
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Thanks to TCM for providing a long-overdue look at what Hollywood was doing before mindless censorship established a stranglehold on creativity. Just think, after the early-mid-'30s, married couples had to sleep in twin beds for decades of movies and TV. These pre-Code gems give a more realistic look at life in the late-'20s/early-'30s. I enjoyed this set so much, I've since added volume 2 to my collection. Highly recommended!
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Three movies in that box, but only one theme. To quote Margo Channing - or Bette Davis - or Jo Mankiewicz - in 'All about Eve' : ''Funny business, a woman's career". If you are born female - and poor - you have two handicaps and you have to fight for life. But you're said to have power on men. So use it or they will use you.
Here we have three really different women, and three different lives.
In "Waterloo Bridge" (1931 directed by James Whales the woman is a victim of poverty, loneliness ... Read More
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There are many gripes about older movies that I consider rather lame: they aren't in color, the special effects are not that great, etc. There is, however, one complaint that is somewhat legitimate, and that is how some movies were watered down due to the Production Code. At its peak, the Code would keep films as far away from reality as possible: violence would be bloodless, husbands and wives would sleep in separate beds and authority figures (such as policemen) were beyond corruption (except for ... Read More
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