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Baby Face (1933)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:11

Rotten:0

Average Rating:7.6/10

Runtime: 72 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Nubile Lily Powers can't keep men away, so she decides to go on the offensive and to put her sexual endowments to work for her. She leaves behind her ho-hum steel town environs for the... Nubile Lily Powers can't keep men away, so she decides to go on the offensive and to put her sexual endowments to work for her. She leaves behind her ho-hum steel town environs for the hustle-and-bustle of New York and finds work in a bank. There, she attempts to flirt with, and eventually bed, every executive she meets in her scheme to rise to the top of the financial heap. But she discovers that her sluttish exploits ruin the lives of the men around her. Tragedy follows in her wake, as she uses and disposes of her suitors, one by one. Ultimately, however, Lily realizes she does have a heart. [More]

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Margaret Lindsay

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Margaret Lindsay, Douglass Dumbrille, John Wayne, Arthur Hohl, Henry Kolker

Director: Alfred E. Green

Director: Alfred E. Green
Story: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Raymond Griffith

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They can't take their eyes off her. You won't be able to either.

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04/24/07
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

Engagingly shocking to audiences who think of old movies as quaint and innocent.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
01/24/07
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

...an amazing film for any age because it is purely about sex. Not X-rated, pornographic sex, but raw, sensual, unequivocal, unmitigated sex, nevertheless.

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12/24/06
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Baby Face is sort of the ultimate pre-Code film, with its repetitive form %u2014 that same come-hither look, that same goggle-eyed assent from the dude on the receiving end %u2014 almost beggaring belief.

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12/06/06
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
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08/08/06
Mordaunt Hall
Mordaunt Hall
New York Times
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A fascinatingly conflicted artifact of Depression-era do-me feminism.

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04/07/06
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Racy melodrama made before the Production Code.

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03/05/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

If you've never seen Stanwyck in a pre-Code film, you've never really seen Stanwyck.

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02/03/06
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Inarguably one of the greatest screen actresses of the century, Stanwyck gives one of her strongest performances here, all fire and hunger and pain.

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02/02/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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01/26/06
Time Out

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07/18/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

The peppy title tune over the opening credits hardly prepares you for the sordid story that follows...

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07/14/04
James Sanford
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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05/24/03
Film4

Well worth looking at.

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01/01/00
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
 
 
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