Summary
Pamela Billings, once the toast of jazz-age soirées, pirouettes through speakeasy spotlights in silk that clings like scandal itself; her marriage to Bill, an heir whose inheritance evaporates overnight, becomes a gilded cage rattled by creditors. While Bill straps himself into a growling Bugatti to outrun ruin, Pamela—bored, brazen, and buzzing with gin-bravado—trades quips and kisses with a wolfish Lothario whose moustache promises more than it delivers. The cad, sated on her restless glamour, pivots to fresher flesh, leaving Pamela clutching the empty sequins of her reputation. A public brawl erupts: fists, flappers, and fractured pride. Bill storms in, is hurled across a parquet floor, and cracks his collarbone beneath the chandelier’s mocking glitter. Guilt ignites Pamela; she slips into his leather coat, mashes the throttle, and transforms from reckless coquette to soot-smudged Valkyrie, overtaking every male rival in a thundercloud of dust and exhaust. The checkered flag kisses her front tyre, the purse rescues their mortgaged mansion, and the couple—tattered, trembling, yet electrically alive—find a new matrimonial lexicon written in motor oil and headlight glare.
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A plummet in family fortunes forces Bill Billings (Kenneth Harlan) to become a race-car driver. His wife Pamela (Marie Prevost) has been carrying on a bold flirtation with a wily philanderer, but he tires of her and turns his attention to a younger girl. When Pamela tries to defend her reputation, Bill breaks in and is injured during the ensuing fight. In a reconciliation, Pamela takes his place as driver and triumphantly wins the race.
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