Our streak of finding gynocentric crime film gems continues with our second Paramount 1931 episode, featuring two movies directed by Sylvia Sidney specialist Marion Gering. 24 Hours pairs a despairing Clive Brook and Miriam Hopkins, haunted by marriages they can't escape in one way or another. And Ladies of the Big House, starring a radiant Sidney as a hapless shopgirl who (like Hopkins' nightclub singer) becomes the target of a gangster's obsession, depicts life in prison as a curious quasi-utopia of racial equality and solidarity among American's socioeconomically oppressed. We give you our take on Gering as unsung auteur!
Time Codes:
0h 00m 25s: Hollywood, 1931 and Paramount
0h 07m 09s: 24 HOURS [dir. Marion Gering]
0h 40m 51s: LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE [dir. Marion Gering]
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Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler
Additional 1930 information from: Forgotten Films to Remember by John Springer
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