Peter Good, an idealistic young farmhand, finds that Amy, the girl of his dreams, does not requite his love, and goes forth in search of adventures. He arrives at a roadhouse to which Amy has been brought by Harry Benson, a young city sport wanted by the authorities for bootlegging, and climbs into the car in which Amy is being abducted. A running fight ensues, which ends when the car crashes, slightly bruising all occupants. Harry is taken into custody by dry agents and reconciliation between Amy and Peter follows.

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A woman you will never forget!
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager – a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

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In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father’s death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of ‘La Cucaracha,’ his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa’s bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero’s fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant…

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Sought by the New Orleans police for accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a woman flees New Orleans for a Caribbean island. Surrounded by lecherous criminals, she awaits the return of her fiancé and seems to be holding her own until the treachery of the local police chief leaves her but one choice to gain her freedom.

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Lilly Turner (1933) provided a bravura role for star Ruth Chatterton, and another opportunity to display her versatility. Lilly is a hard-luck dame with lousy taste in men. First she marries a no-good bounder who promises her the world, but instead turns her into a cootch dancer in a carnival. Then she finds out her “husband” already has a wife. Left alone and pregnant, Lilly marries an alcoholic pal (Frank McHugh), and the couple joins a traveling medicine show. Things go from bad to worse when a psychotic strongman in the show develops an obsession for her. When a genuine nice guy, played by Chatterton’s then-husband George Brent, comes into her dreary life, Lilly tries to grab some happiness. But it may be too late.

After a distinguished career on the New York stage, Chatterton was part of the wave of theater performers who had gone to Hollywood at the beginning of the sound era. Already in her mid-30s and not conventionally pretty, Chatterton was nevertheless a great success in films, bringing a sense of “class” to the medium, and was twice nominated for Oscars®, for Madame X (1929) and Sarah and Son (1930). Unlike many stage actors of the era, Chatterton did not use exaggerated diction or grand gestures. Her acting style was naturalistic, her way of speaking staccato, distinctive, and charming, her facial expressiveness small but precise. Although her normal speech was cultured, in Lilly Turner Chatterton is playing a working class character, so she drops her g’s, but it seems natural, not affected. In his book about pre-code film actresses, Complicated Women (2000), Mick LaSalle called Chatterton “a vision of total female authority, circa 1930. Even in weepies, she was commanding. Short and slightly plump, Chatterton was convinced she was beautiful, and she convinced everybody else, too. She had a baleful stare and yet a surprisingly mischievous, almost childlike, smile. She was a diva.”

Lilly Turner was the second film together for Chatterton and director William A. Wellman. A “man’s man” with a preference for action films and a contempt for divas, Wellman was not happy when he was assigned to direct Frisco Jenny (1932) with Chatterton. The dislike was mutual, but after three days of icy silence between them, director and star called a truce, recognizing each other’s talents, and becoming great fans of each other. Frisco Jenny would be Chatterton’s favorite film. While she and Wellman were happy to work together again, Lilly Turner was not as good as Frisco Jenny. For Wellman, Lilly Turner was just another programmer, one of six that he cranked out in 1933 under contract at Warner Bros. In spite of the grim story, Wellman gives the carnival scenes a certain seedy vitality. And reliable character actors Guy Kibbee as the medicine show boss, and Frank McHugh as Lilly’s bibulous husband get a chance to play characters with a few more facets than their usual one-note comedy roles. Mordaunt Hall noted in the New York Times that Kibbee “does remarkably well by the part.” But as for Chatterton, she “is not in her element in such a narrative, for she is obviously far better suited to a more sophisticated subject.” The Variety reviewer wrote that the film “fails to measure better than fair,” but had praise for Chatterton’s efforts, saying “Picture is Miss Chatterton’s all the way, star making every effort to give what the story lacks and what is missing in the direction.” In spite of such reviews, Lilly Turner was a box-office success.

Lilly Turner is clearly a pre-Code film, dealing frankly with Lilly’s sexual affairs, and that may be the reason why it wasn’t seen for many years. According to studio records, in 1936, Warner Bros. tried to reissue it, but was denied a Production Code certificate.

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Synopsis:
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Review:
O Brooks-ey, Where Art Thou?

Everything you need to know about the mystique of Louise Brooks is contained in the first five minutes of this picture. We meet her dressed in men’s clothes, standing above a recently deceased body, dead from a gunshot to the temple. Brooks has killed him and looks like she would cheerfully do it again.

Then we see the events leading up to the murder – an attempted rape, which she desperately fends off with a shotgun. She’s a terrified child in this scene, her face pale and wide with fear.

Brooks was more than just a great hairstyle (although it is a great hairstyle). She was an actor of huge range whose unpredictability added tension to each scene. Halfway through the picture, there’s a moment when her traveling companion is about to be thrown from a moving train while she’ll be taken prisoner by a horny hobo. Will she break down and beg mercy? Will she jump from the train? Will she shoot the hobo? Will she talk her way out of it? Brooks is so dynamic and enigmatic, there’s really no way of knowing.

The film itself is a rattling yarn, a kinetic chase movie with some excellent train-based set pieces. It’s the kind of movie that the Hayes Code set out to ban, with tons of sex, violence and disrespect for law and polite society. The scene where Brooks and Richard Arlen snuggle up in a haystack is one of the hottest things I’ve ever seen.

— bleary (Letterboxd)

Two extra commentary tracks included:
1. Commentary by actor William Wellman Jr.
2. Commentary by Thomas Gladysz, founding member of the Louise Brooks Society

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Selina lived well until her father Simeon died. Her aunts sold the estate and put her in a boarding school. As an adult she wants to be a teacher in farming country. She falls in love with and marries Pervus, a Dutch farmer she has been tutoring. When he dies her hopes lie with their son Dirk, who disappoints her by giving up architecture for stock brokerage. Her new hope is Roelfe, the son of her former boardinghouse keeper and a sculptor. Dirk falls in love with Dallas O’Mara, whom Selina hopes will be the inspiration for her son’s salvation.

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