Pre-Code RKO (Vol. 2) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Transgression / Are These Our Children / The Woman Between / The Right to Romance / Aggie Appleby Maker of Men )

Pre-Code RKO (Vol. 2) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Transgression / Are These Our Children / The Woman Between / The Right to Romance / Aggie Appleby Maker of Men
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
367 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1931 - 1933 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Herbert Brenon
Wesley Ruggles
Victor Schertzinger
Alfred Santell
Mark Sandrich

Written By:
Kate Jordan
Elizabeth Meehan
Wesley Ruggles
Howard Estabrook
Irving Kaye Davis
Sidney Buchman
Henry McCarty
Joseph Kesselring
Humphrey Pearson

Actors:
Kay Francis ..... Elsie Maury
Paul Cavanagh ..... Robert Maury
Ricardo Cortez ..... Don Arturo de Borgus
Nance O'Neil ..... Honora 'Nora' Maury
Doris Lloyd ..... Paula Vrain
John St. Polis ..... Serafin, Arturo's Butler
Ruth Weston ..... Viscountess de Longueval
Adrienne D'Ambricourt ..... Julie, Elsie's French Maid
Agostino Borgato ..... Carlos (scenes deleted)
Eric Linden ..... Edward 'Eddie' Brand
Beryl Mercer ..... Mrs. Martin - Eddie's Grandma
Billy Butts ..... Bobby Brand
Rochelle Hudson ..... Mary
William Orlamond ..... Heinrich 'Heinie' Krantz
Arline Judge ..... Florence 'Flo' Carnes
Roberta Gale ..... Maybelle 'Giggles'
Mary Kornman ..... Agnes 'Dumbbell'
Ben Alexander ..... Nicholas 'Nick' Crosby
Robert Quirk ..... Bennie Gray
Lili Damita ..... Julie Whitcomb
Lester Vail ..... Victor Whitcomb
O.P. Heggie ..... John Whitcomb
Miriam Seegar ..... Doris Whitcomb
Anita Louise ..... Helen Weston
Ruth Weston ..... Mrs. Black
Lincoln Stedman ..... Buddy
Blanche Friderici ..... Mrs. Weston
William Morris ..... Frederick Weston
Halliwell Hobbes ..... Barton - the Butler
Ann Harding ..... Dr. Margaret Simmons
Robert Young ..... Bobby Preble
Nils Asther ..... Dr. Helmuth Heppling
Sari Maritza ..... Lee Joyce
Irving Pichel ..... Dr. Beck
Helen Freeman ..... Mrs. Preble
Stephen Chase ..... Bunny Allen
Delmar Watson ..... Bill
Louise Carter ..... First Face Lift Patient
Bramwell Fletcher ..... Man with the Maceys
Patricia O'Brien ..... Eve Lane
Charles Farrell ..... Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
Wynne Gibson ..... Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
William Gargan ..... Red Branahan
Zasu Pitts ..... Sybby 'Sib'
Betty Furness ..... Evangeline
Blanche Friderici ..... Aunt Katherine

Synopsis:

Transgression (1931)
At the behest of her husband, Robert (Paul Cavanagh), who's due to spend the next year working in India, English housewife Elsie Maury (Kay Francis) sets out for a lengthy holiday in Paris. There she meets Don Arturo de Borgus (Ricardo Cortez), a suave Spanish man whose charms she's unable to resist. Elsie eventually considers leaving Robert for Don Arturo, but, when their relationship ends in tragic fashion, she tries to salvage her marriage before Robert learns of her disloyalty.
Are These Our Children (1931)
A teen (Eric Linden) joins a bad crowd, shoots a deli owner for booze and goes to the electric chair.
The Woman Between (1931)
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
The Right to Romance (1933)
A plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) marries a playboy aviator (Robert Young) who's wrong for her.
Aggie Appleby Maker of Men (1933)
When Aggie's boyfriend Red is sent to jail, she meets a mild-mannered man and decides to turn him into a real man.

Transgression (1931)
When an English husband goes off to India for a year-long business trip, he also sends his wife to live in Paris to alleviate her loneliness and boredom. While she is there, she becomes quite the courtesan, and meets a Spanish Don who falls in love with her. After her husband returns to meet her in Paris, she finds that the year has changed them somewhat. She is charmed by the Spaniard and duped by him and his conniving valet to come to Spain, just to see him for a few days. The first night that she is there, she falls in "love" with him, and writes a letter to her husband stating that she is going to leave him for the Spanish gentleman. A few minutes after the letter leaves, an old father comes into the estate and shoots the charmer; he had fathered a child by a 16-year-old daughter of this old man. With this new-found knowledge, our lady frantically returns to her husband who truly loved her all along, hoping to stop the letter and save her marriage. Will she be able to intercept the dreaded letter before it gets to him?
Are These Our Children (1931)
A good kid with no record commits a robbery, kills an old man and winds up on death row. The authorities try to figure out why he went bad.
The Woman Between (1931)
Julie Whitcomb and Paul Niles meet and fall in love on the ship returning them from Europe. But once in New York, where Julie owns a boutique, she tries to break off their romance, telling Paul she's married. At the same time, Julie's stepdaughter, Doris, plans a welcome home party for her brother, Victor, after his extended absence. He left in a huff when his father, John, planned to marry shortly after his mother died, and never met the intended bride. When Julie joins the party, both are shocked when they see each other. It seems that Victor changed his name to Paul Niles and Julie was known as Madame Julie, the name of her boutique, so they had no idea when they met they were stepmother and stepson. They continue their deception, but Doris guesses the truth when she catches Victor lying about the ship he came in on. She writes a letter to her father telling all, but Julie gets hold of the note. Victor has asked her to meet him at the pier for a ship going back to Europe, and now John tells her he bought her a villa on the Riviera where they can both retire to. Torn between both her loves, she first asks John to read the letter Doris wrote.
The Right to Romance (1933)
Dr "Peggy" Simmons, a successful and respected plastic surgeon, encounters job stress beyond her control. Lacking a social side to her harried life and desperately seeking romance, she travels to a beach-side resort for some R&R and becomes reacquainted with Bobby Preble, a devil-may-care playboy. They fall madly in love; but Peggy resists her temptations and soon returns to the many needy patients that rely on her unique talents. Preble follows, and nuptials soon follow. Will these two, being from different worlds and having dissimilar life outlooks, make their marriage work? Will old beaus intervene?
Aggie Appleby Maker of Men (1933)
Tough Aggie (William Gargan) gives a street guy (Charles Farrell) polish and a rich kid (Betty Furness) gumption.

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