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Dorothy Mackaill, Mae Busch, and Esther Muir played floozies better than anyone and played them often. Here, however, the ladies are soundly defeated by a ridiculous script, careless direction, and a typical back lot jungle, all courtesy of ramshackle Allied Pictures Corp. and penny-pinching producer M.H. Hoffman, who apparently borrowed RKO's standing sets from King Kong. Yet despite its faults -- and they are legion -- Picture Brides survives as an especially ripe piece of low-budget hokum mostly thanks to Alan Hale's priceless turn as the lecherous, and homicidal, mining boss.