1933 · pre-code · comedy
She Done Him Wrong
Directed by Lowell Sherman1h 5m1933
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more male friends than can be imagined. One is a vicious escaped criminal on the way to see 'his' girl, unaware she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Our read: She Done Him Wrong (1933) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded pre-code · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle pre-code / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- funny
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