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Claudette Colbert is radiant as a woman torn between loyalty to her father who's suspected of criminal activity and attraction to a newspaper reporter determined to uncover corruption. This 1933 independent release which was partly filmed in Monterey, California is a fine example of the kind of movie that confronted human issues head-on without resorting to innuendo before official censorship was imposed. Such honesty would not be seen again in American cinema until the late-1960s. Screening before the feature is a Warner Bros. cartoon from 1931, the very first Merrie Melody, depicting excessive alcohol consumption with the resulting bodily effects that would soon disappear from animation due to enforcement of the production code.
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