This low-budget melodrama twists and turns more than a roller coaster. Blue is a gangster framed by his cheating wife Compson. Next she takes up with a rival mobster, then gets her husband to escape in order to kill the district attorney. To further complicate matters Blue gets in a car
crash that gives him a new face and even an educated accent. The direction is as much of a joke as the script, paying little attention to believability or continuity. A remake of the 1922 Associated First National film featuring Milton Sills and Florence Vidor, the 1929 SKIN DEEP was released in
both silent and sound versions (titles for the silent by De Leon Anthony). Some of the p...
Released:
1929
Rated:
NR
Length:
64 mins