- Merrily We Go to Hell
5/22/23 (Mon)
A pre-code 1932 film that deals with daring themes for its time like adultery and alcoholism, but not very well. As in many of these films, it features upper-crust society with impossibly glamorous mansions, gorgeous clothing and an endless supply of alcohol in defiance of Prohibition. Dorothy Arzner, the only significant female director in those days and an open lesbian (as if being female in itself wasn’t hard enough), clearly wanted to be scandalous, as the controversial title itself suggests. But she should have found a better script to hang it on.
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