Bill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love with a slumming socialite who bluntly and startlingly declares her sexual preferences with this immortal line: "If I could find a man who would be my master and give me a good thrashing, I'd follow him around like a dog on a leash.
Is it worth your time? If you like movies that feel like they were written by someone who had one too many coffees and a grudge against polite society, sure. Watch it if you want to see a pre-code crime film that isn't afraid to be genuinely gross. Skip it if you need your protagonists to be likable or if the idea of a...
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Rowland Brown
F. Martin Thornton
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies that feel like they were written by someone who had one too many coffees and a grudge against polite society, sure. Watch it if you want to see a pre-code crime film that isn't afraid to be genuinely gross. Skip it if you need your protagonists to be likable or if the idea of a character demanding a 'thrashing' sounds like a headache rather than a plot twist. George Bancroft plays Bill Bailey like he’s the king of a very small, very dirty trash heap. He..."
Franklyn Ardell
Rowland Brown, Read Kendall
United States
1932 · IMDb —
