Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume Two, DVD

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All-new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood; Commentaries on the Divorc�e and Night Nurse by film historians Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta; Theatrical trailers of Female, Night Nurse and Three on a Match

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Disc #1 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [:52]
2. Ted Proposes [5:20]
3. Wounded Paul [5:00]
4. The Accident [3:23]
5. Two Weddings [1:52]
6. Third Anniversary [3:58]
7. Ex-Flame Janice [5:10]
8. Farewell Toast [5:31]
9. Missed Connections [5:19]
10. Unfaithful [2:18]
11. Homecoming [4:57]
12. Accounts Balanced [3:55]
13. Ted Makes a Scene [2:53]
14. Loosened Woman [4:16]
15. Jerry's Men [5:11]
16. Protective Paul [6:08]
17. Paul's Proposition [2:27]
18. Helen's News [5:22]
19. Jerry's Vow [4:17]
20. New Year, New Chance [3:52]
1. Credits [1:06]
2. The Ashes [5:27]
3. Daughter Meets Defendant [4:01]
4. Hat Trick [1:42]
5. Birthday Engagement [3:48]
6. Leave of the Party [3:49]
7. Shooter's Target [2:39]
8. New Kind of Man [3:46]
9. Break With Dwight [2:18]
10. Nightcap [2:49]
11. Don't Insult Your Guests [2:43]
12. Put 'Em Around Me [3:51]
13. Sordid Truth [2:33]
14. Jan's Bargain [6:28]
15. Wilderness Cravings [7:13]
16. Drunken Getaway [3:00]
17. None of Our Business [2:22]
18. Ace's Property [6:38]
19. Grandma's Final Wish [1:36]
20. Ace's Warning [4:49]
21. Dwight Takes Action [2:33]
22. Deliberate Murder [2:59]
23. Back in Court [3:00]
24. Jan on the Stand [5:52]
25. The Guilty Party [5:16]
26. That's a Date [1:02]
Disc #2 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [1:07]
2. Playing Hooky [2:56]
3. Graduation [4:26]
4. Three Schools [4:29]
5. Three on a Match [5:10]
6. Vivian Needs a Change [5:57]
7. Party Girls [4:51]
8. Abandoning Ship [3:43]
9. Child Care [4:20]
10. Intervention [2:44]
11. Mary's New Role [2:54]
12. Desperate Ex-Housewife [3:03]
13. The Squeeze on Mike [3:05]
14. Blackmail to Kidnapping [4:13]
15. Ransom Demand [2:25]
16. The Heat's On [3:01]
17. Mother's Sacrifice [4:06]
18. Two on a Match [:35]
1. Credits [:53]
2. Busy Businesswoman [4:39]
3. Never a Real Man [3:16]
4. Time for the Vodka [2:55]
5. Morning After [4:59]
6. One of These Days [2:12]
7. Freddie Boy Artist [2:42]
8. This Man Thorne [1:54]
9. Not a Bit Domestic [3:04]
10. Shooting Matchup [4:04]
11. I Don't Take Pickups Home [2:00]
12. Vodka Resistant [3:58]
13. Not a Gigolo [2:55]
14. Dominant Type [4:43]
15. Picnic for Two [5:09]
16. Too Much License [3:12]
17. No Place for a Woman [3:47]
18. We're Going to Make It [3:32]
Disc #3 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [:49]
2. The Good Doctor [4:34]
3. Tips From Maloney [4:25]
4. Maternity Ward [1:56]
5. Night Shift Penalty [3:04]
6. Bloody Bootlegger [6:49]
7. Unsuccessful Surgery [3:50]
8. Flowers for My Pal [1:31]
9. Two Little Girls [5:42]
10. Nick the Chauffeur [5:13]
11. Doctor's Advice [2:40]
12. Risky Business [3:55]
13. On the Level [4:22]
14. Nanny Takes a Nosedive [3:02]
15. Dipsomaniacal Mother [5:16]
16. Milk Bath Remedy [3:15]
17. Nixed By Nick [4:40]
18. Mortie to the Rescue [2:06]
19. Doing the Right Thing [2:21]
20. Taken for a Ride [2:06]

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In the Academy Award-winning Free Soul, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family, whose main failing is his indulgence in alcohol. After winning a case for mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), Stephen brings his client along to a party at his parents' house for a little celebrating. However, when they arrive at their destination, Ace manages to steal the heart of Stephen's wild daughter, Jan (Norma Shearer), and the two run off together, much to the family's dismay. Stephen struggles to win his foolhardy daughter back from the clutches of her lowlife boyfriend, as she defies her father at every turn. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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In the Academy Award-winning Free Soul, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family, whose main failing is his indulgence in alcohol. After winning a case for mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), Stephen brings his client along to a party at his parents' house for a little celebrating. However, when they arrive at their destination, Ace manages to steal the heart of Stephen's wild daughter, Jan (Norma Shearer), and the two run off together, much to the family's dismay. Stephen struggles to win his foolhardy daughter back from the clutches of her lowlife boyfriend, as she defies her father at every turn. Iotis Erlewine

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Three on a Match covers approximately 13 years in the lives of girlhood chums Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), Ruth Wescott (Bette Davis) and Vivian Deverse (Ann Dvorak). Having graduated from grammar school together in 1919, the girls stage a reunion ten years later. Hard-boiled Mary is now a chorus girl, level-headed Ruth has a steady job as a secretary, and vixenish Vivian is on the verge of capriciously deserting her wealthy husband Robert Kirkwood (Warren William) and their baby in favor of sexy mob-boss Mike (Lyle Talbot). Several more years pass, during which Mary marries Henry, Ruth is hired as governess for Henry, and Vivian's son and a drug-addicted Vivian become fatally enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving her own child. In his second Warner Bros. film, tenth-billed Humphrey Bogart essays his first sneering-gangster role. Three on a Match was remade (and considerably laundered) in 1938 as Broadway Musketeers. Hal Erickson

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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse discovering evildoings in the household where she is caring for a couple of sick children. Based on a 1930 novel by Dora Macy, Wellman's probe into medical corruption is one of the director's more cynical looks on Depression-era America, but most of the characters are weakly drawn and the denouement a cheat, cinematically. Barbara Stanwyck plays Lora Hart, an ambitious student nurse whose first assignment after graduation is tending to a couple of deathly ill little girls, Nanny (Marcia Mae Jones) and Desney (Betty Jane Graham). Despite their posh surroundings, the girls are apparently suffering from malnutrition; their mother, Mrs. Ritchey (Charlotte Merriam), is hopped-up on bootleg booze ("I'm a dipsomaniac! A dipsomaniac I tell ya! And I like it!"), and the girls' physician (Ralf Harolde) is a society quack with a facial tick. Lora soon realizes that the good doctor is deliberately starving the children to death in order to gain access to their trust fund and that Mrs. Ritchey is kept in line by Nick (Clark Gable), a black-clad gangster posing as the family chauffeur. A desperate Lora proposes to contact the authorities, but her medical sponsor (Charles Winninger) deems that unethical and instead suggests that she find a solution from inside the family. Nearly at the end of her ropes -- and having accepted one too many blows to the chin from Nick -- Lora is saved by an admirer, good-natured bootlegger Mortie (Ben Lyon), whose "friends" take the evil chauffeur on a final "ride." None of this makes much sense, and the film appears to have been tampered with along the way. One of the children disappears without any explanation halfway through, and the hospital establishment's reticence is never properly explained. Instead of a coherent plot, Night Nurse, in typical pre-Production Code style, offers quite a few scenes of Barbara Stanwyck and fellow nurse Joan Blondell dressing and undressing and a rather brutal portrayal by a very young Clark Gable on the threshold to fame. Warner Bros. had borrowed Gable from MGM to play the despicable chauffeur when the original choice, James Cagney, suddenly proved too valuable a commodity for what was actually a supporting role. Hans J. Wollstein

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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day. In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she frequently finds among the ranks of her own employees and executives; the problem is that these men can't abide the fact that back at work, she's all business again; and she keeps having to get their long, mopey faces out of her presence by transferring them elsewhere. Then she meets Jim Thorne (George Brent), a gifted engineer who is attracted to Drake but isn't a callow, cowtowing yes-man, and isn't awed by her millions. After a few awkward encounters, they find a balance in their lives together, or so she thinks, until he proposes marriage. Bruce Eder

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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorc�e in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. Shearer is Jerry, a socialite who marries handsome Ted (Chester Morris) after a whirlwind courtship. But Ted is not exactly the faithful type and after three years of what she in her na�vet� considered marital bliss, Jerry learns of his affair with Janice (Mary Doran). "It meant nothing," Ted assures her but Jerry is devastated and decides to investigate adultery for herself by sleeping with Ted's best friend, Don (Robert Montgomery). When she discovers that the old double-standard still applies, Jerry announces that henceforth Ted, and only Ted, is no longer welcome in her bed. After a string of lovers who mean little or nothing to her, Jerry falls for an old flame, Paul (Conrad Nagel), but when she understands the effect their affair has on Paul's poor disfigured wife, Dorothy (Helen Johnson, aka Judith Wood), Jerry returns to Ted, who still loves her despite it all. Hans J. Wollstein

UPC: 012569795761
Source: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Language: English
Editions: Remastered, Mixed Media Set, Restored
Time: 6:10:00
Sales Rank: 10,262

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

The Divorcee
A Free Soul
Three on a Match
Female
Night Nurse
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Features:

All-new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood; Commentaries on the Divorc�e and Night Nurse by film historians Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta; Theatrical trailers of Female, Night Nurse and Three on a Match

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [:52]
2. Ted Proposes [5:20]
3. Wounded Paul [5:00]
4. The Accident [3:23]
5. Two Weddings [1:52]
6. Third Anniversary [3:58]
7. Ex-Flame Janice [5:10]
8. Farewell Toast [5:31]
9. Missed Connections [5:19]
10. Unfaithful [2:18]
11. Homecoming [4:57]
12. Accounts Balanced [3:55]
13. Ted Makes a Scene [2:53]
14. Loosened Woman [4:16]
15. Jerry's Men [5:11]
16. Protective Paul [6:08]
17. Paul's Proposition [2:27]
18. Helen's News [5:22]
19. Jerry's Vow [4:17]
20. New Year, New Chance [3:52]
1. Credits [1:06]
2. The Ashes [5:27]
3. Daughter Meets Defendant [4:01]
4. Hat Trick [1:42]
5. Birthday Engagement [3:48]
6. Leave of the Party [3:49]
7. Shooter's Target [2:39]
8. New Kind of Man [3:46]
9. Break With Dwight [2:18]
10. Nightcap [2:49]
11. Don't Insult Your Guests [2:43]
12. Put 'Em Around Me [3:51]
13. Sordid Truth [2:33]
14. Jan's Bargain [6:28]
15. Wilderness Cravings [7:13]
16. Drunken Getaway [3:00]
17. None of Our Business [2:22]
18. Ace's Property [6:38]
19. Grandma's Final Wish [1:36]
20. Ace's Warning [4:49]
21. Dwight Takes Action [2:33]
22. Deliberate Murder [2:59]
23. Back in Court [3:00]
24. Jan on the Stand [5:52]
25. The Guilty Party [5:16]
26. That's a Date [1:02]
Disc #2 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [1:07]
2. Playing Hooky [2:56]
3. Graduation [4:26]
4. Three Schools [4:29]
5. Three on a Match [5:10]
6. Vivian Needs a Change [5:57]
7. Party Girls [4:51]
8. Abandoning Ship [3:43]
9. Child Care [4:20]
10. Intervention [2:44]
11. Mary's New Role [2:54]
12. Desperate Ex-Housewife [3:03]
13. The Squeeze on Mike [3:05]
14. Blackmail to Kidnapping [4:13]
15. Ransom Demand [2:25]
16. The Heat's On [3:01]
17. Mother's Sacrifice [4:06]
18. Two on a Match [:35]
1. Credits [:53]
2. Busy Businesswoman [4:39]
3. Never a Real Man [3:16]
4. Time for the Vodka [2:55]
5. Morning After [4:59]
6. One of These Days [2:12]
7. Freddie Boy Artist [2:42]
8. This Man Thorne [1:54]
9. Not a Bit Domestic [3:04]
10. Shooting Matchup [4:04]
11. I Don't Take Pickups Home [2:00]
12. Vodka Resistant [3:58]
13. Not a Gigolo [2:55]
14. Dominant Type [4:43]
15. Picnic for Two [5:09]
16. Too Much License [3:12]
17. No Place for a Woman [3:47]
18. We're Going to Make It [3:32]
Disc #3 -- Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2
1. Credits [:49]
2. The Good Doctor [4:34]
3. Tips From Maloney [4:25]
4. Maternity Ward [1:56]
5. Night Shift Penalty [3:04]
6. Bloody Bootlegger [6:49]
7. Unsuccessful Surgery [3:50]
8. Flowers for My Pal [1:31]
9. Two Little Girls [5:42]
10. Nick the Chauffeur [5:13]
11. Doctor's Advice [2:40]
12. Risky Business [3:55]
13. On the Level [4:22]
14. Nanny Takes a Nosedive [3:02]
15. Dipsomaniacal Mother [5:16]
16. Milk Bath Remedy [3:15]
17. Nixed By Nick [4:40]
18. Mortie to the Rescue [2:06]
19. Doing the Right Thing [2:21]
20. Taken for a Ride [2:06]

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