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Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Ladies They Talk About poster
Directed by
Howard Bretherton, William Keighley
Genre
drama film, crime film, prison film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 43 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is part of a bank robbery gang. She gets caught and sent to prison. There she meets a man who might reform her or drag her further into crime.

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What happens

Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a bank-robbery gang. It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. In 1928, Dorothy Mackaye, #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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