SILVER

Iconic "It girl" Clara Bow left the 1920s behind with this torrid story about a Texas debutante, Nasa Springer (Bow), with a wild temper and wicked ways. Mexican-born actor Gilbert Roland stars opposite Bow in her hugely successful comeback film. One of the raciest movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this lurid film is filled with melodrama, debauchery and pre-Code material then considered taboo on the screen, including a memorable hair-pulling fight scene between Bow and Thelma Todd and a jaunt to a Greenwich Village gay bar. CALL HER SAVAGE has "enough melodrama for three movies" (David Stenn) and is one of the definitive pre-Code films that led to the censorship of American cinema just two years later. DIR John Francis Dillon; SCR Edwin J. Burke, from the novel by Tiffany Thayer. U.S., 1932, b&w, 88 min. NOT RATED
Restored 35mm print from The Museum of Modern Art.

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