
Young and wealthy Molly Allison can't be "presented" into society until her older sister Julia is married, but that doesn't stop Molly from pursuing her usual wild ways. She finds herself in turn pursued by Count Renaud, unaware that he is a criminal interested in swindling her out of her money.

Beatrice Van
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Beatrice Van’s screenplay arrives like a gin-spiked fruit punch hurled into the face of prim melodrama. Instead of wilted damsels wringing gloved hands, we inherit Molly Allison, a combustion engine in pearls who refuses to idle until her sister’s hymen—yes, the film winks at that Victorian transaction—is bartered of...


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" Beatrice Van’s screenplay arrives like a gin-spiked fruit punch hurled into the face of prim melodrama. Instead of wilted damsels wringing gloved hands, we inherit Molly Allison, a combustion engine in pearls who refuses to idle until her sister’s hymen—yes, the film winks at that Victorian transaction—is bartered off. Margaret Allen plays Molly with the kinetic restlessness of a flapper who has swallowed a cinematograph; every sideways glance is a celluloid splice, every smirk a daring iris-o..."


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