She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Country: US
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland
Synopsis:
During the Gay Nineties a nightclub singer strings along many a suitor, but none tickles her fancy so much as a handsome young temperance campaigner.
Review:
About the best West vehicle that made it to the screen before the Hays Code got in the way. It will no doubt leave modern audiences bemused as to what the fuss was about and the parody of sexuality she offers may strike one as presumptuous as standards of beauty have changed, but this would be missing the point. It is the very primitiveness which appeals, whether the earthiness of the star's allure or the creakiness of the movie-making as it segues from song to melodrama to innuendo-strewn badinage.
Country: US
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland
Synopsis:
During the Gay Nineties a nightclub singer strings along many a suitor, but none tickles her fancy so much as a handsome young temperance campaigner.
Review:
About the best West vehicle that made it to the screen before the Hays Code got in the way. It will no doubt leave modern audiences bemused as to what the fuss was about and the parody of sexuality she offers may strike one as presumptuous as standards of beauty have changed, but this would be missing the point. It is the very primitiveness which appeals, whether the earthiness of the star's allure or the creakiness of the movie-making as it segues from song to melodrama to innuendo-strewn badinage.
Country: US
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland
Synopsis:
During the Gay Nineties a nightclub singer strings along many a suitor, but none tickles her fancy so much as a handsome young temperance campaigner.
Review:
About the best West vehicle that made it to the screen before the Hays Code got in the way. It will no doubt leave modern audiences bemused as to what the fuss was about and the parody of sexuality she offers may strike one as presumptuous as standards of beauty have changed, but this would be missing the point. It is the very primitiveness which appeals, whether the earthiness of the star's allure or the creakiness of the movie-making as it segues from song to melodrama to innuendo-strewn badinage.