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One of the better character conflicts was She Married Her Boss, with Melvyn Douglas and Claudette Colbert, in which the smart young business woman snares her boss, marries him, takes her efficiency from the office into his home, causing complications and confusion. Then a clean-cut, straightforward exposition of envy and resentment at the intrusion of a stranger; a backbiting, neurotic old maid sister wanting the shades drawn to keep the rugs from fading, the newcomer wanting them up to keep their souls from fading, with a perverse stepdaughter making happiness impossible all around; a conflict that winds up with the stepdaughter getting a much-needed spanking and the heroine sick of the whole set-up off on a bender with an erstwrhile playboy admirer. The husband then sues for divorce but comes to his senses in time to expel the trouble-makers.
The Law Intensifies
When the law is innocent of any knowledge of false evidence, when it is as much a victim of perjury or deception as the accused, there may be some sympathy for the law. But unless deception is complete, any attempt to give the law a sympathetic ticket usually flounders on the shoals of dubiousness. Which may not in theory be acceptable to many readers but when one dips a little deeper into consciousness of the extent to which law and justice have been corrupted and discredited in this best of all possible worlds, audience dubiousness regarding the law is understandable.
Due to that dubiousness the policeman and the detective have become stock heavies, to the extent that our stars lose none of their lustre even in killer routines; witness the numerous little Caesars and Scarfaces who have been rubbed out to the gentle patter of falling tears as w7ell as a rain of lead.
Even though the law cooperates zealously with the hero in foiling the cattle thieves, thwarting the landgrabbers, outwitting and apprehending the gangsters, smugglers and counterfeiters, sooner or later it is revealed that somebody wearing a badge or signing a warrant has been working secretly with the crooks. Confirming audience suspicions in that manner is common because the industry has learned that the law as a menace can cinch a bigger hand for the hero.
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