Old Movie Watching with Rob's video: Babyface 1933 - Movie Review

Babyface was an intriguing 1933 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and Donald Cook. Barbara Stanwyck is an amazing actress and I always enjoy seeing her in these older films. The interesting thing about this film is that, I think of films from the 1930's and I think they will generally be tame, generally wholesome and mostly innocent, and while this film has absolutely no profanity, violence, or graphic adult content, the film itself is about a young woman who, following her father's death, heads to New York City and basically uses her beauty to seduce her way through one successful man after another to gain money, success and power. I mean, yeah, that was the entire gist of the film. It's NOT exactly one I would recommend for family viewing, considering the content, and yet, there's really nothing directly shown on the screen at all. Everything is completely implied and, truth be told, were it not for the subject matter this could pass as a PG film. As I watch old films from the 30's I've been trying to understand what it means when you hear "pre-code film", and, yeah, this is definitely an example of early Hollywood when occasionally a film surprised you with the content it presents. While I can't necessarily say this is one everyone should check out, if you are interested in seeing how a controversial subject matter can be addressed without assuming the viewer is an idiot to what is being implied and suggested, then this is one to see. It was cool to see Donald Cook again, who I recently saw in Public Enemy with James Cagney, as well as a brief appearance by a very young John Wayne. That was interesting. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023775/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt