A 1930 pre-code where virtue gets mugged in a dark alley and doesn't call the cops.
Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.
Acting
Lois Wilson's slow corrosion from innocent to calculating.
Production
Glimpses of 1930 NYC before Hays Code sanitized everything.
Director
E. Mason Hopper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code films like this operated in a 4-year window where Hollywood could show pregnancy, infidelity, and women enjoying sex before Joseph Breen's Catholic Legion of Decency crackdown.
E. Mason Hopper directed 85+ silent films; this was among his last before sound economics pushed him to B-pictures and early TV. Most of his work is lost.
US
