Date and Time
- Thursday, Nov 12, 2026 9:30pm
Details
Intro by film historian Sheila O’Malley
This long-unseen pre-Code gem is one of three films in the series featuring actress Dorothy Mackaill. (She also stars in THE MAN WHO CAME BACK and THE BARKER.) A hardboiled bootlegger (Milton Sills) saves the life of a singer on the skids (Mackaill). Both attracted and repelled, she accepts a job at his nightclub before drifting into a romance with a newspaperman; over a Christmas visit, his relatives treat them as married and her as a dream child, the daughter they never had. When the bootlegger learns of the affair, he drags her back into the underworld (to the immortal line “A wife? Why pay for a Ford when I can get Rolls Royces for free?”)
