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Common Clay Reviews

1919
1 hr 29 mins
NR

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After a quick dose of life in the fast lane, pretty department store employee Ellen Neal decides to work as a maid for the Fullertons. She fends off the advances of a lecherous family friend, Arthur Coakley, but falls in love with the Fullerton son, Hugh.

This story of a speakeasy hostess sullied by men, but who pulls herself out of the gutter and emerges as a defiant heroine, was touted at the time as being a lady's magazine story foisted on a tabloid generation. Tully Marshall, in an inconspicuous part as a fire-eating old lawyer, breathes some life into a well-done, but overly long production. Ayres' third picture, it appeared four months after the great ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Remake of the 1919 silent film.