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Blondie Johnson. 1933 1h 9m Crime Drama. List. Reviews. 67% Audience Score 50+ Ratings. The death of her mother drives a bitter blonde (Joan Blondell) to a life of crime that ends with prison...
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- John Beifuss
- Crime, Drama
- Ray Enright
Blondie Johnson (1933) was one of eight movies in which Ray Enright directed Joan Blondell at Warner Bros. during the period 1933-37. In the title role, Blondell plays a basically honest woman who becomes a gun-moll during hard times in the Depression.
- Ray Enright
- Joan Blondell
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It’s about a lady gangster who takes over a mob through her wits rather than with her body– which is pretty rare for a Pre-Code. She’s vicious, cunning, and makes suckers out of her enemies.
Getting ahead for women in the Pre-Code Era was often viewed as using logical assets their advantage, and the most logical assets a woman had were her womanly wiles. Barbara Stanwyck displayed this in Baby Face a few weeks ago, where we follow along as she sleeps her way to the top of a bank. Hell, the popular Gold Diggers series is entirely about ...
There is one thing I find completely baffling about the film, that I can only imagine was snuck in as some sort of joke. I get where ‘Blondie’ got her nickname. Why is Chester Morris’ character’s n...
This film is available on Amazon, Amazon Instant Video and Warner Archive, and can be rented from Classicflix.
Blondie Johnson is a 1933 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris. It was produced by Warner Bros.
Sep 29, 2013 · Period reviews for Blondie Johnson (1933) offer proof that critics of the day were tired of the gangster cycle. “If you’re able to stand more gangsters, you’ll probably enjoy this,” was the general consensus, in this case taken directly from the pages of The New Movie Magazine.
Popular reviews. More. Review by sakana1 ★★★★ 26. So much in this movie defies expectations that it ends up being quite special for any era, pre-Code or not. 1. Joan Blondell's (Blondie Johnson) first scene is breathtaking. She's not funny, she's not sexy, she's not wise or arch.
Movie Review: Blondie Johnson (1933) WARNING: SPOILERS In the early ’30s Edward G. Robinson played gangsters who were Italian, (“Little Caesar”), Greek (“Smart Money”) and Chinese (“Hatchet Man”), and if he’d been believable as a woman they probably would’ve given him this role, too.
