Pre-code Hollywood: Baby Face (12A)
“I'm a ball of fire, I am.”
“ Pre-Code cinema was often a dangerous game of one-upmanship. Warner Bros took one look at MGM’s highly risqué Red-Headed Woman and decided to respond with this jaw- dropping sensation marketed with the tagline “She had it and made it pay”. She is Barbara Stanwyck, in a steely early role as single-minded young Lily Powers, sexually exploited from a young age and determined both to turn the tables on men, and to use her feminine charms to create a better life for herself. Inspired by some words from Nietzsche she hops a train to New York with Chico (Theresa Harris) to embark on a career as a ruthless seductress. In the big city, she starts sleeping her way to the top of a bank run by a notorious playboy (George Brent).” Pamela Hutchinson.
Dir. Alfred E Green | US | 1933 | cert. tbc | 1h 11m
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When you buy a ticket for Pre-code Hollywood: Baby Face (12A) or any other movie in the Pre-Code season, you will get 50% off a ticket for the screening of a‘ A Free Soul’.
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