Essential Cinema: Fast Women of the Pre-Code Era

SAFE IN HELL

Directed by William Wellman

USA, 1931, 1h 13min, DCP

Essential Cinema  Fast Women of the Pre-Code Era

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“Seems remarkably lurid and sordid even by the loose standards that prevailed before Hollywood began enforcing the production code with vigor in 1934.”
The New York Times

“Hugely entertaining.”
Arts Fuse

One of the most shockingly direct and hardboiled pre-Code films stars the little-known Dorothy Mackaill as a hard-living lady of the evening who accidentally kills a man and flees to a Caribbean island where she holds her own against desperadoes who pursue her at every turn. Rough, tough, and extraordinarily well-directed by William “Wild Bill” Wellman.

Safe in hell

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