Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 09

A small-town Hoosier (Eric Linden) takes his windfall to Manhattan in search of a good time, but his drunken hotel-room bash ends in tragedy, in "Big City Blues" (1932). Joan Blondell, Walter Catlett co-star; keep an eye out for Humphrey Bogart. A chain-gang member (Richard Dix) schemes to blow the lid off of the state's penal abuses in "Hell's Highway" (1932). Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson co-star. A young sharecropper (Richard Barthelmess) looks for betterment through the attentions of the land baron's pretty daughter (Bette Davis) in "The Cabin in the Cotton" (1932). Dorothy Jordan, Berton Churchill co-star. A novelist (Myrna Loy) whose latest is a roman a clef about her affair with her publisher (Frank Morgan) makes a new friend (Ann Harding)--and doesn't know she's his wife. "When Ladies Meet" (1933) co-stars Robert Montgomery, Alice Brady. A fast-talking Second Avenue huckster (Pat O'Brien) finds himself being outscammed by a femme fatale (Claire Dodd) in "I Sell Anything" (1934). Ann Dvorak, Roscoe Karns co-star. 6 hrs. total on four discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.