A Free Soul
Lionel Barrymore shines as Stephen Ashe, a brilliant alcoholic lawyer who successfully defends dashing gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) on a murder charge only to find that his headstrong daughter, Jan (Norma Shearer), has fallen in love with his client.
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Disappointing - RobBC
With a stellar cast rounded out by Norma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore I expected more but aside from some implied raciness this is pretty standard melodramatic fare with all the usual ingredients; fallen woman, guilt-addled parent, and one erotically-charged bad boy who, if this were filmed today, would probably be cast as a sexy misunderstood vampire.
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Disappointing - RobBC
With a stellar cast rounded out by Norma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore I expected more but aside from some implied raciness this is pretty standard melodramatic fare with all the usual ingredients; fallen woman, guilt-addled parent, and one erotically-charged ...