Divorcee. Free soul. Three on a match. Female. Night nurse. Thou shalt not : sex, sin and censorship in pre-code Hollywood.
Notes:
Collective title from container. The divorcee: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery. A free soul: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, Clark Gable. Three on a match: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis. Female: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown, Ruth Donnelly, Ferdinand Gottschalk. Night nurse: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable. The divorcée based on a story by Ursula Parrott. Night nurse from the novel by Dora Macy. The divorcee originally released as a motion picture in 1930 ; A free soul originally released as a motion picture in 1931 ; Three on a match originally released as a motion picture in 1932 ; Female originally released as a motion picture in 1933 ; Night nurse originally released as a motion picture in 1931. Special features: All-new documentary "Thou shalt not: sex, sin and censorship in pre-code Hollywood"; commentaries on "The divorcée" and "Night nurse" by film historians Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta; theatrical trailers of "Female," "Night nurse" and "Three on a match."
Contents:
Disc one: The divorcee / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Robert Z. Leonard production (82 min.) A free soul / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; Clarence Brown's production ; directed by Clarence Brown. (93 min.) -- Disc two: Three on a match / First National Pictures presents ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy ; screen play by Lucien Hubbard (63 min.). Female / First National Pictures presents ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola (60 min.) -- Disc three: Night nurse / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & The Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by William A. Wellman ; screen play by Oliver H.P. Garrett. (72 min.).
Summary:
Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
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