Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Reptileenbu
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
gridoon2018
Sexy Joan sings, dances (partly in male disguise!) and displays her thick, strong legs, until she sees the light under the guidance of Clark Gable and covers up in the Salvation Army robe. Their roles don't allow them much electricity in their chemistry, and they are not helped by a slight, mediocre script. ** out of 4.
utgard14
Oh, boy. Clark Gable in the Salvation Army. Where did they come up with this stuff? Nightclub performer Ivy Stevens (Joan Crawford) is despondent upon learning Howard "Howdy" Palmer (Neil Hamilton) has no intention of marrying her. She was just a booty call to our boy Howdy. How Neil Hamilton got so many roles in the early '30s as a ladies man type is beyond me but that's how it was then I guess. Anyway, Ivy decides to jump off a bridge but she is stopped by kindly and handsome Salvation Army worker Carl (a mustacheless Clark Gable). Ivy joins up with the Salvation Army too and is seemingly happy with her new lifestyle. But then one day Howdy spots her and, despite being married now, makes a move for her. Can Ivy resist Howdy's seductive ways? Can any woman?There's a few things wrong with this movie. First, on no planet does Joan freaking Crawford, at this time a young and sexy dancer, get that upset over being dumped by Neil Hamilton. He was born looking like a banker. So that's unbelievable. Second and third things are that Clark Gable is no Salvation Army worker and he sure as hell isn't a guy named Carl! Joan's farmer dance is the highlight of the movie and probably her best dancing number from all of her early dancing movies. Overall it's a watchable but mostly forgettable melodrama about a "wrong" woman going right. Avid Crawford and Gable fans will like it most.
mark.waltz
If you want to see Joan Crawford in fake nose and beard dancing up a storm, then banging a drum to collect sinners a la Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls", then this is your movie. She goes from nightclub performer involved with "Batman's" Neil Hamilton to the very religious Clark Gable for no apparent reason other than the fact that he is a hunk. Hamilton dumps her to become respectable then comes back when she apparently finds salvation. Who would you choose? Of Crawford and Gables' many pairings together, this is the poorest of the lot. Marjorie Rambeau is somewhat amusing as a hardboiled pal of Crawfords, and Cliff Edwards and Guy Kibbee offer alright performances in underdeveloped roles, but the whole story (what there is) is simply no laughing matter.
whpratt1
I have never seen this film up until recently and was amazed at the great talent of Joan Crawford(Ivy "Bunny" Stevens) "Humoresque" '46 with John Garfield. Joan was very sexy and wore very revealing clothes for the early 1930's, her dancing and singing was unbelievable and she was so very pretty, slim and trim, not like the real "Mommie Dearest" character her daughter told us about. Clark Gable (Carl Loomis),"Gone With the Wind"'39 was Ivy's prince charming as a Salvation Army convert and when she appears in the park with her beautiful white dress, you just knew there was going to be an immediate CONVERSION OF SOULS! Veteran actor, Roscoe Karns, (Gred Geer) played a great supporting role. This film is filled with surprises, even a little African American Boy stealing a bite from a girls doughnut tore me up, there is many deep soul searching messages in this film and LOTS OF LAUGHTER and one attempted jump off a bridge. ENJOY!
