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Employees' Entrance (1933)

Employees' Entrance poster
Directed by
Roy Del Ruth
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A ruthless department store manager uses his power to manipulate employees and pursue a young woman. She resists his advances while trying to keep her job.

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What happens

Employees' Entrance is a 1933 pre-Code film about the devious manager of a New York department store (Warren William) and his romantic involvement with a reluctant new employee (Loretta Young). It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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