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Bad Girl

Bad Girl

  • Status: Released
  • 13-08-1931
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Score: 5.9
  • Vote count: 32

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

James Dunn

Eddie Collins

Sally Eilers

Dorothy Haley

Minna Gombell

Edna Driggs

Frank Darien

Lathrop

William Pawley

Jim Haley

Claude King

Dr. Burgess

Louis Natheaux

Mr. Thompson

Sarah Padden

Mrs. Gardner

Charles Sullivan

Mike the Prizefighter

Billy Watson

Floyd

Frank Austin

Upstairs Tenement Neighbor (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Expectant Father (uncredited)

William Bailey

Expectant Father of Twins (uncredited)

Jesse De Vorska

Expectant Father (uncredited)

Paul Fix

Nervous Expectant Father (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Male Nurse (uncredited)

Aggie Herring

Seamstress (uncredited)

Lorin Raker

Male Nurse (uncredited)

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I don't know that honesty is always the best policy, but I think that this melodrama might have gone much more smoothly for the married "Dorothy" (Sally Eilers) and "Eddie" (James Dunn) if they, especially the latter, had just been a little more upfront with the other. She basically thinks all men are predatory wastrels; he that women just want to shop their way trough life. Despite these obvious misgivings, and because he treats her with almost as much disinterest as she does him, the pair start to quite like each other. She's got a brother who is a controlling pain in the neck, so they come up with a plan to get her married so she's out of his ambit. Swiftly, with a baby looming, he loses his job and desperate times call for desperate measures - all against a tapestry of mistrust and scepticism! There are times when I just wanted to bang their heads together and I took that as a sign that they were all doing their jobs properly. Dunn delivers quite engagingly, especially as the film progresses and his character's inability to simply be honest and less priggish just worsens his problems. It takes a while to get going, but once the dynamic is laid out for us, then this is quite an amiably presented look at the stupidity of human nature and of the breadwinning custom and is well worth ninety minutes - though maybe not if you're headed to a maternity ward anytime soon.