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"It's the age-old story of the girl so mistreated by men that she's determined to get revenge. Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president."@en
"It's the age-old story of the girl so mistreated by men that she's determined to get revenge. Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president."
"En pleine Prohibition, Liliane Powers est serveuse dans le speakeasy miteux d'une ville-usine. Son père, qui la force à coucher avec ses clients rustres et brutaux, décède lors de l'explosion de sa distillerie. Fuyant alors à New York, Lily est engagée dans une banque dont elle gravit les échelons en utilisant sans scrupule les hommes comme marchepieds vers la réussite...L'un des chefs-d'oeuvre interdits et inédits de l'ère Pré-Code Hays. Censuré pour ses insinuations sexuelles, ce chef-d'oeuvre est le portrait d'une femme forte et magnifique, luttant avec ses armes dans l'Amérique impitoyable de la Grande Dépression. Barbara Stanwyck interprète remarquablement cette Liliane qui se transforme en garce professionnelle pour tenter d'échapper à la misère. Cette version originale non censurée a été classée parmi les 100 meilleurs films de tous les temps par le Time Magazine en 2005."
""Although Lily Powers, the beautiful young daughter of Nick Powers, a steel town speakeasy owner, struggles to protect herself from men, her father forces them on her. Finally Lily rebels and, on the advice of her friend, the local cobbler, decides to use men to get ahead. She leaves the steel town and takes her maid Chico with her to the city, where she takes a job in a bank. There she seduces men like Jimmy McCoy, his boss Brody, and eventually Ned Stevens, Brody's supervisor. Stevens sets Lily up in an apartment, although he is engaged to Ann Carter, the daughter of one of the bank's executives. Then Ann's father discovers Lily's charm and provides her with an even more elegant apartment. In a jealous rage, Stevens kills Carter, then himself, creating a scandal at the bank. Lily claims she is a victim of circumstance, convincing the bank to pay her enough money to go to Paris and make a fresh start. A well-respected socialite named Courtland Trenholm is subsequently appointed president, and after he is transferred to Paris, he too falls in love with Lily and marries her. Trenholm signs over his fortune to Lily, and when the bank is faced with bankruptcy, Lily refuses to help him. Convinced he is ruined, Trenholm decides to shoot himself, but Lily arrives in time to save his life and promise her devotion to him. After she uses her jewels to pay back the money he owes, Lily and Trenholm move to the steel town to start over together"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."
"Barbara Stanwyck stars in this tale of a streetwise girl forced into prostitution by her father. Using her brains and body she pursues wealth and status in the big-city."@en
"Lily Powers goes from mill town dirt to wife of a bank president leaving a trail of discarded men along the way."
"It's the age-old story of the girl so mistreated by men that she's determined to get revenge. It's also a rags-to-riches story. Originally made before the Production Code, this version was subsequently cut by 4 minutes to pass inspection of the California Board of Censors."@en