Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
00070
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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66 SODOM AND GOMORRAH left out. Of course, if this rule were to be strictly adhered to, it would go hard with pictures like "Red Dust" and "Hold Your Man," which, if the offensive scenes and conversation were to be omitted, would have nothing left. It is interesting to know that the pictures rated highly by the dramatic critics seldom, if ever, contain indecent material. And as a rule these highly-rated films make more money by a wide margin than the mediocre and poor pictures containing so much trash. Surely the extra effort spent in producing good pictures, would in the long run, if not immediately, be vastly more profitable. That Hollywood does sometimes produce pictures that are representative of real life cannot be denied. Fox Film's production of "State Fair," is such a picture. This cinema accurately portrays the family life of a moderately well-to-do farmer. It contains romance without showing the farmer's wife or daughter taking a bath in a rain barrel, and the entire film contains no trace of an illegitimate child. True, the son has -an affair with a rather loose woman at the fair, but it is not portrayed in detail nor is it made the theme of the entire picture. He recovers from it without staging a demonstration against conventional society for opposing fornication, and he does not knock his father down in the process of defending his love for the woman "whom society persecutes."