A very thin story idea which barely fills 80 minutes. Bored small town girl Lombard is dated (bothered is another word, pestered is yet another) by card sharp Gable and ends up marrying him. She discovers his dirty ways and sets out to reform him - which she does, as she loves the guy!
Mainly worth seeing for Lombard, who's as fresh as usual. She and Gable got on well - this is the film on which she presented the actor with a ham, with his face on it!
She's photographed in her pre-code undies by Leo Tover. With Grant Mitchell, George Barbier, Dorothy Mackaill, Elizabeth Patterson (Remember the Night, Dinner at Eight, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife).
Blackwell's Island did have a prison in those days - it was later renamed Roosevelt Island.
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| Lombard appears to be wearing a calculator |
Ms. Lombard was still married to William Powell then - the great Gable-Lombard romance happened after.
Paramount.
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