However, he began to grow larger and become harder to work with. He did well in late 1920s with films like The Pony Express (1925), Underworld (1927), and Thunderbolt (1929). He turned to acting where he performed in silent films and made his debut on Broadway in 1923.īancroft was a big man and he was good at playing bad guys. Following his time in the Navy, he worked as a theater manager and in minstrel shows. After high school, he attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and became a naval officer. Bancroft was born in 1882 in Philadelphia. George Bancroft played bail bondsman Bill Bailey. There are only a couple of returning actors because this movie is a little early for me. The mania of the Elaine character is still shocking. In some ways, were not caught up to the place they were. I was a little impressed with how far out these films really were. “I want a man who’s my master! Who would shoot the first man who looks at me!” “You need a good spanking.” “What I want is a good thrashing!” Girl gets extremely excited by luau dancing: “Pagan! Almost savage, isn’t it?!” One of the main characters has a severe case of kleptomania and thrill stealing, as well as sexually getting off to criminals. Sixteen year old comes in charged with criminal assault of an older woman, our main character thinks it’s pretty funny.

I think summed this movie up pretty well saying: I am pretty excited to record this podcast for two reasons: 1) We all survived Hurricane Irma, and 2) I have wanted to do it ever since I was researching I Walked With a Zombie (1943) and I heard Frances Dee’s quote about a friend admonished her for playing a prostitute in Blood Money (1933), and she replied, ‘I played a masochistic nymphomaniacal kleptomaniac, not a prostitute.” I was telling one of my co-workers about this film and after a bit, she said when do the rabbits come in? I was pretty confused until she told me she thought the title was Blood Bunny. This is my first go at an honest-to-goodness pre-code movie.

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