Poor Sally O'Neil, formerly a contender to the flapper throne of Clara Bow, struggles along valiantly in this low-budget mess that arrived to neighborhood screens in January of 1934 courtesy of D.J. Mountan's Screencraft Productions. Miss O'Neil does what she can with the material -- poor as it is -- but she is confronted with slipshod direction by former editor S. Roy Luby (who is mistakenly billed as "Roy S. Luby" in the credits) and a pallid co-star in one Paul Page, a former vaudeville entertainer with an amazing lack of charisma. Neither Miss O'Neil nor Mr. Page, sadly, remained long in Hollywood after The Moth, which, incidentally, had nothing whatsoever to do with the William Dana Orcott novel of the same name and filmed with Norma Talmadge back in 1917.
The Moth (1934)
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
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