Sexual Astrology - DVD : TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman)

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starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker directed by: Alfred E. Green, Jack Conway, James Whale See Larger Image List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $18.99 You Save: $20.99 (53%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $19.09 Collectible Price: $39.98 Third Party New Price: $16.73 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569679641 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 05, 2006 Running Time: 308 minutes Sales Rank: 3373 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1933 Related Items: TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 (The Divorcee / A Free Soul / Night Nurse / Three on a Match / Female) Preston Sturges - The Filmmaker Collection (Sullivan's Travels/The Lady Eve/The Palm Beach Story/Hail the Conquering Hero/The Great McGinty/Christmas in July/The Great Moment) Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4 (Act of Violence / Mystery Street / Crime Wave / Decoy / Illegal / The Big Steal / They Live By Night / Side Street / Where Danger Lives / Tension) Dangerous Crossing (Fox Film Noir) Midnight (Universal Cinema Classics) see more Editorial Review: Product description: Includes: Waterloo Bridge (1931), Baby Face (1933), and Red-Headed Woman (1932). Amazon.com: Here are three films that couldn't and wouldn't have been made at any other time. Contrary to popular belief, the history of Hollywood permissiveness, what filmmakers could 'get away with' on screen, is not a steadily rising graph from puritanical early days to the party-hearty present. In the early 1930s, a national mood of shock over the stock market crash and impatience with Prohibition licensed a relaxation of the movie industry's self-censorship policies. Sexuality--always a driving force in movie plots and characterizations, even when repressed--became a more explicit presence, with costuming that sometimes pushed the envelope for exposure of epidermis and dialogue that could be shockingly blunt. Baby Face (1933) was made at Warner Bros., the golden-age studio with the grittiest style and the most street cred. The gutsy Barbara Stanwyck stars as a young woman from a factory town who hops a boxcar to the big city and sleeps her way to the top--a progress famously indexed by a camera ascending floor by floor outside a Gotham office building as she trades up, one corporate suitor after another. No other major-studio film was more explicit about sex as a tool and a commodity, yetBaby Face is curiously less sexy than any number of movies that weren't so outspoken about it. This TCM collection features both the theatrical-release version familiar for decades and a recently rediscovered preview version that is markedly superior, runs five minutes longer, and includes more sexual liaisons. It also happily lacks an absurd final scene that got tacked onto the release version to explain how the heroine learned to be content with a modest lifestyle. Red-Headed Woman (1932) is arguably the raunchiest movie Jean Harlow made at MGM (though not as raunchy as her scenes in Howard Hughes' 1930 Hell's Angels). Unlike Stanwyck in Baby Face--a proletarian heroine grimly selling herself to beat capitalism and the patriarchy at their own game--Harlow's character brazenly relishes both the sex and the posh life it wins for her. The lion's share of this sardonic comedy, scripted by Anita Loos and an uncredited F. Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on Harlow's seduction of her married boss (Chester Morris) and the havoc she wreaks in his upper-crust world. Charles Boyer has a role (his first Hollywood credit) as a French chauffeur who knows how to give satisfaction, and the film's air of breezy ribaldry even allows the star a casual flash of bare breast. The rarest item in the collection, the 1931 Universal version of Waterloo Bridge, has long been unseen because MGM bought the film in order to do a 1940 remake (starring Vivien Leigh) and locked the original away in the vault. Directed by James Whale the same year he did Frankenstein (1931), the picture charts the romance of a chorus-girl-turned-streetwalker (Mae Clarke) and a well-born young soldier (Kent Douglass) on brief furlough from the trenches during WWI. Apart from a zesty prelude in a London music hall and two scenes on the titular bridge, the film remains yoked to its talky theatrical source, a Robert E. Sherwood play flogging the hoary conceit that no fallen woman, however pure of heart, could be permitted to marry into a good family. Unlike the Hays Code-compliant remake, the film leaves no doubt how the heroine makes her living. --Richard T. Jameson Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - 30's Classics We obtained this collection because we were curious to see films that were considered forbidden during the 1930's and it is interesting to realize what Hollywood gets away with today, vs. what was considered taboo in the early part of the 20th Century. To briefly remind ourselves of what the 30s was all about... the USA's population was 123 million people, living in 48 states with a life expectancy of 58 years for men and 61 for females. People were making an average salary of $1,400 ... Read More Rating: - Crystal Clear It's amazing that these movies have never hit dvd before!!! They have crystal clear sound and picture with a documentary by Robert Osbourne. The thing that caught my attention upon this product was the pre-release version of Baby Face. Those few minutes of film that were cut are sooo essential. If you like movies from the early 30's then you'll LOVE this collection. I reccomend it! Rating: - God bless Turner Only Turner Entertainment would pull these out of the vaults, clean them up and offer them on DVD. Other than beating young children without just cause (such as spanking) and third degree methods by the police, the most notorious was the sexual situations. Dialogue that would not make us blush today, pushed the limits of decency back then. In Baby Face (1933) Barbara Stanwyck has her [...] fondled and sold for sexual favors in a factory. This TCM collection features both the theatrical ... Read More Rating: - Welcome Dose of Reality Thanks to TCM for providing a long-overdue look at what Hollywood was doing before mindless censorship established a stranglehold on creativity. Just think, after the early-mid-'30s, married couples had to sleep in twin beds for decades of movies and TV. These pre-Code gems give a more realistic look at life in the late-'20s/early-'30s. I enjoyed this set so much, I've since added volume 2 to my collection. Highly recommended! Rating: - Women's power Three movies in that box, but only one theme. To quote Margo Channing - or Bette Davis - or Jo Mankiewicz - in 'All about Eve' : ''Funny business, a woman's career". If you are born female - and poor - you have two handicaps and you have to fight for life. But you're said to have power on men. So use it or they will use you. Here we have three really different women, and three different lives. In "Waterloo Bridge" (1931 directed by James Whales the woman is a victim of poverty, loneliness ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Classics - Genres - DVD - Video - General Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - General Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Classics Love & Romance - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - General AAS Military & War - Genres - DVD - Video - World War II