Lillian Stevens and her cousin, Ruth, return home from college and Lillian receives a cold reception from her too-busy-to-bother parents; her father, Dr. Richard Stevens, is a professional reformer and has a radio broadcast to make, and her mother, Alice, is planning a bridge party and sends Lillian off to her cousin's home for dinner.

Is it worth the watch? If you have a soft spot for pre-Code morality plays or just want to see how cinema handled 'scandalous' behavior back in the thirties, this is a decent curiosity. If you are looking for a nuanced character study, you will probably hate it. It is less of a movie and more of a public service announ...


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"Is it worth the watch? If you have a soft spot for pre-Code morality plays or just want to see how cinema handled 'scandalous' behavior back in the thirties, this is a decent curiosity. If you are looking for a nuanced character study, you will probably hate it. It is less of a movie and more of a public service announcement gone wrong. Lillian is just a college kid looking for some attention. Her dad is too busy with his radio reformer act to look up from his papers. It is the classic 1930s se..."
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Ivan Abramson, Arthur Hoerl, Robert Lively, Betty Laidlaw
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1920 · IMDb —
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