Despite Howard Hawks and Walter Huston, this is surprisingly terrible.

Addicted to your wonderful pre-code.com site so this looks great - but a purchase of course depends on just how many Joan Blondell photos you include!

Considering the primitive technology and how stagey and static this is, this picture is somehow totally engaging and utterly fascinating.

Never heard of her…. surprised that Uncle Carl didn’t give her more juicy roles considering his studio’s infamous nepotism. Maybe some family feud had happened?

Marion Gering was one of Hollywood’s most underrated directors. Most of his thirties pictures, like this, are amongst the decade’s greatest. The crazy ‘Devil and the Deep’ is his masterpiece.

The perfect pre-code movie! Insanely over the top story with larger than life characters and larger than life Tallulah Bankhead. And unlike a lot of what Hollywood churned out in 1931, this is exceptionally well made too.

Fabulous silly fun film BUT once watched, you’ll not be able to stop hearing that song in your head for months!