
When noted scientist John Vandam dies in the Orient, he leaves the guardianship of his eighteen-year-old daughter to his old friend Sandy Verrall. Sandy believes that Eliza is a little girl and so prepares for the arrival of a child.


A champagne-cork pop of subversion, Dangerous to Men fuses the drawing-room farce of Daddy-Long-Legs with the venomous sparkle of a Lubitsch postcard, then spikes the punch with something wilder: a heroine who weaponizes infantilism the way Mata Hari wielded silk stockings. Viewed today, the film feels like finding a...

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William C. Dowlan

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" A champagne-cork pop of subversion, Dangerous to Men fuses the drawing-room farce of Daddy-Long-Legs with the venomous sparkle of a Lubitsch postcard, then spikes the punch with something wilder: a heroine who weaponizes infantilism the way Mata Hari wielded silk stockings. Viewed today, the film feels like finding a razor blade inside a chocolate bonbon—its 65-minute runtime glides from Saigon harbor fog to Nob Hill ballrooms without pausing for breath, let alone moralizing. The camera, restl..."
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