Ladies They Talk About

1933

Action / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2168 2.2K

prison jealousy revenge female prisoner bank robbery pre-code

Plot summary

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Director

William Keighley Photo
William Keighley

Top cast

Lillian Roth Photo
Lillian Roth as Linda
Harold Minjir Photo
Harold Minjir as Bank Teller
Ray Turner Photo
Ray Turner as Bank Janitor
Harry C. Bradley Photo
Harry C. Bradley as Attendee at Revival Meeting
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634.37 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
Seeds 1
1.15 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by imogensara_smith 7 / 10

Who knew prison was this much fun?

Reviewed by marcslope 6 / 10

Lopsided

Engaging pre-Code women-in-the-slammer nonsense, with Stanwyck as a guileless babe in stir for a bank robbery. Lillian Roth helps out loads as a tough fellow inmate (she even sings "If I Could Be With You," to an 8x10 of Joe E. Brown), and Ruth Donnelly, always indispensable in these Warners early talkies, is a sympathetic matron. Other delights include a bullish cigar-smoking lady criminal and Dorothy Burgess as Stanwyck's worst nightmare. But the morality is all over the place, with Stanwyck abetting her fellow bank robbers in a breakout attempt, yet the scriptwriters still demand that she engage our sympathy. We're even supposed to root for her as she falls in and out and in and out of love with Preston Foster, as a crusading Aimee Semple McPherson sort, a relationship that makes no sense at all. This is the type of movie where she shoots her lover and immediately whimpers, "I didn't mean that!" Stanwyck was always an interesting actress, and as she alternately snarls and screams and charms and smiles, she's intensely watchable. But her schizo character doesn't register as a heroine. And Preston Foster doesn't register at all.
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