Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 02

In her Academy Award-winning role, Norma Shearer is "The Divorcee" (1930), a newspaperman's wife who leaves her husband due to his extra-marital affairs and embarks on her own series of encounters (a racy theme for its time). Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel co-star. Next, Clark Gable plays a slyly charming criminal who escapes a murder charge with the help of alcoholic attorney Lionel Barrymore, only to seduce Barrymore's pleasure-seeking daughter (Shearer), in "A Free Soul" (1931). A trio of childhood girlfriends meets years later to find their lives intertwined in a web of love triangles, mobsters, alcohol, and drugs, in "Three on a Match" (1932). With Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Humphrey Bogart. "Female" (1933) stars Ruth Chatterton as a woman in charge of an automobile factory whose tough, no-nonsense business attitude matches her love life. Johnny Mack Brown co-stars. And, Barbara Stanwyck is a "Night Nurse" (1931) who cares for two fatherless children and uncovers a plot to kill them for their inheritance hatched by their drunken mother and her chauffeur lover (Gable). 6 hrs. total on three discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby digital mono.