Broadway After Dark (1924)
Directed by Monta Bell
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
Ultra suave Adolph Menjou plays an urbane, filthy rich bachelor who finds himself falling for a socialite just as carefree as he. At first he is delighted by her gadabout ways, but after a while her cocquettish ways towards others begin to grate upon him. Deciding he needs a break from shallowness he lets a room in a boarding house for theater people. There he meets a struggling ex-convict. Her prison record causes her to lose her job. Smitten by her beauty and earthiness, the playboy takes her in and tries to help her integrate into his glittering world by telling people that she is his ward. things are finally looking up when a crooked detective appears and tries to blackmail her. Fortunately, her millionaire hero isn't about to let her life be destroyed again.
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love, blackmail, boarding-house, city, detective, disillusionment, employment, forbidden-love, killing, nudity, playboy, playgirl, rape, seclusion, sex, suicide, superficiality, terror
