Mary Ainslee

Betty Compson

Willy Castello

Betty Atkinson

Tommy Wonder

Lorelei Readoux

Margaret Fealy

Donald Kerr

Ray Hirsch

Patti Lacey

Eugene Taylor

Aileen Morris

Maxine Taylor

Pearl Tolson

Monte Collins

Steve Clemente

Glen Dennison

Florence Dudley

Jack Hendricks

Clyde McClary

Ethelreda Leopold

Fay McKenzie

Bruce Mitchell

Noel Neill

Hal Price

Donald Reed

Melville Shyer

Robert Jahns

Marcel Le Picard

Harvey Gould

Willis Kent

Drama

Mad Youth

Willis Kent Productions

United States of America

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To give this it's due, it does try to deal with some rather more grown up themes, but somehow the whole thing just falls a bit flat. In a sort of spin-off from "The Lady Refuses" (1931), this time "Lucy" (Betty Compson) - not averse to a gigolo or two of her own, takes umbrage when her daughter "Marian" (Mary Ainslee) falls for the "Count DeHoven" (Willy Castello), her mother's latest rent-a-beau who engages in his task with great gusto. As we all expect from the outset, he manages to fall for "Marian" and the ensuing conflict exposes the younger girl to the nefarious activities of a seedy vice operation. Will she be saved from this life of degradation? Will the "Count" grow a pair...? Some of the "entertainments" in the establishment in which she ends up working raise a smile or two - especially the torero with his canine "bull" - but for the most part it's a rather unremarkable menage-à-trois depiction of what could have been a more grittily presented exposé of the rather shallow lives of the nouveau riche of the time. There is little by way of chemistry on the screen from any quarter and the dialogue - aside form the odd one-liner from Ainslee, drags somewhat. It's OK. Nothing more.

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