When sent out to get milk for the sick children, the amiable bootlegger breaks into a grocery store.
The dipsomaniac is plainly carrying on a tawdry affair with her chauffeur, Nick (Clark Gable), and at one point Stanwyck, disgusted to find her passed out while her children are on the brink of death, rebukes her with, “You mother.” The Code said, Methods of crimes should not be explicitly presented. “No,” Blondell cracks, “But it’s swell for cleaning teeth.” Adultery and profanity are both proscribed by the Code. “But you’re not allowed to drink,” a square nurse objects. In gratitude, he sends her a bottle of rye. The mother of Stanwyck’s charges, who is never seen in any other state than blotto, boasts, “I’m a dipshomaniac-and I like it!” Stanwyck befriends an amiable bootlegger when she treats his bullet-wound and agrees not to report it, contrary to law. I just came from the delivery room.” The Code said, The use of liquor in American life…shall not be shown. An intern who walks in on Stanwyck in her scanties assures her, “You can’t show me a thing. Stanwyck and her roommate, played by Joan Blondell, often speak their lines while casually changing their clothes in front of the camera.
The Code proclaimed that Undressing scenes should be avoided, and never used save where essential to the plot.
0 kommentar(er)
