Vanity Street - 1932 - 6/10
A starving girl hurls a brick through a drugstore window, then waits to be arrested.
“They’ll feed me in jail, right? Being in prison is better than starving, yes?”
She gets a break, followed by rather cruel advice, finally a job in a revue.
Amoral Pre-Code film breaks several taboos, flirts with a few others in barely an hour.
Helen Chandler displays her usual brittle, nervous energy.