Product Details

• Actors: Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks, Diane Lane
• Directors: Elaina B. Archer
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001EDGKYM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,178 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great clips from silents and early talkies but..., March 20, 2009

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ClaudineInWater (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Why Be Good? Sexuality and Censorship in Early Cinema (DVD)

The one thing that drags this documentary down is the use of a modern actress/dancer in really fake looking flapper dresses and wigs during the opening and closing credits. (Seriously, her outfits look as if they had been purchased at a discount Halloween shop) You also see her, at times, throughout the film. It kinda takes away from the beautiful archival clips.
Otherwise this is a well done documentary about women in Hollywood, the Hays Code, and morality in film.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Ever On This Subject!, December 8, 2008

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Damon Devine (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Be Good? Sexuality and Censorship in Early Cinema (DVD)

This film is incredibly thorough! The documentary takes the viewer through the naughty years of pre-censorship Hollywood. There are countless rare film clips and even more rare photos, of Mae West, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Jean Harlow and many more that we all love, including Valentino and Dietrich. There are interview clips that are priceless! It would take an extraordinary amount of money and time to ever gather all of these wonfderful clips on our own (and near impossible to get hold of the rare vintage photos shown onscreen) and so this DVD is highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHY BE GOOD?, April 15, 2009

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John F., Warris, III "John warris" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Be Good? Sexuality and Censorship in Early Cinema (DVD)

Just great. Not as shocking as I thought it would be, but then this is 2009 and one sees more shocking scenes on TV and the street that are more shocking. I do, however, think this DVD should be in your DVD Collection and I am pleased that I own a copy.