What started as a high-minded project for Goulding, who wrote and directed one of Nancy Carroll's most successful pictures, THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY, in 1930, became poorly constructed, haphazard, and insincere for all involved. March plays a district attorney in Prague, forced to close down the
cafe of Skipworth, a place of ill fame, sending the keeper to jail. March relegates the daughter, Carroll, to a nurse's home instead of the reformatory, until the mother is released from jail. When the mother and daughter are reunited, March visits the establishment. He is attacked by the doorman,
Hale, who is madly in love with Carroll and therefore jealous of March. March kill...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins