I know he has just a small part... I want to see why it was pulled from theaters and what the extra 7 minutes was all about that they had to censor it from the film. One movie I have of The Duke, he's in one scene for about 5 sec. Brown of Harvard. But it fits nicely in the collection.
Posts from DakotaSurfer in thread „Baby Face (1933)“
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I ordered a copy of it and it showed up today. The DVD set has an uncut version of Baby Face. Here is what an insert said about the film...
QuoteBaby Face - Uncut: Already the most notorious film of Hollywood's pre-code era, Baby Face (1933) has resurfaced in its original form, which includes about 5 minutes of previously cut material that make the Barbara Stanwyck melodrama all the more shocking. After being requested to strike a new print of the film for the London Film Festival in 2004, Library of Congress curator Mike Mashon discovered a duplicate negative that ran a few minutes longer than the original release version. In "a moment archivists live for" as Mashon has described it, he realized that he was the first person since 1933 to see the uncut Baby Face.
Even by loose pre-code standards, the story of Baby Face was enough to rouse the ire of the New York Board of Censors, which rejected the movie on moral grounds. The vivid, powerful Stanwyck plays Lily Powers, a blonde beauty who is prostituted by her father in his Erie, Pennsylvania speakeasy before fleeing to Manhatten, where she sleeps her way, floor by floor, to the top of an Art Deco skyscraper. Even after the alterations demanded by censors, baby Face remained so potent that its release heped put teeth in the Production Code, created only a few years earlier. It became one of the first films to be withdrawn from theaters under the Code's rigid standards.
Can't wait to watch this one. Probably pretty bland by today's standards. I may have to "share" this one. This puts my collection at 80.2% complete.
