Writers: Booth Tarkington, Edwin H. Knopf, Tom Reed, Raymond L. Schrock
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Charles Winninger, Emma Dunn, Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Bert Roach, David Durand
More info: IMDb
Tagline: The girl who wanted everything!
Plot: Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
My rating: 6/10
Will I watch it again? No.
Man, was Bette Davis looking young, and in her first picture, too! It was also Sidney Fox's first but her career was cut short three years later when she died of a pill overdose. This picture is still in the early days of talkies which means there's NO MUSIC. That hurts because some scenes fall stale. And being how this is a drama, it affects the pacing even more. The story's OK but the real treat is seeing Davis in her first movie and Bogart in his fourth feature. Bogart's Valentine Corliss is a snake in the grass but he's also a charming smooth talker. He's good. A lot of what I've seen of his early work is mostly his sidekick gangster roles where he's pretty stale. It's nice seeing him in a different light. The picture runs a little slow at times (mostly because of the lack of music) but it's all over in 68 minutes. It probably doesn't help that this is a lower budget B-picture made to keep their stable of up and comers working and honing their craft.
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