Joan Crawford achieved major stardom with her portrayal of "Dangerous" Diana Medford, the wild jazz age flapper with the decent, honest heart, in this silent classic. Miss Crawford's dancing may not hold up very well for some modern viewers, but she gives a solid dramatic performance, dressed in high fashion and existing in an Art Deco fantasy world. The film was made during the last days of the silents and has a musical soundtrack that includes a few lines of…

Any movie that ends with Film Noir icon Joan Bennett standing waist deep in the Salton Sea with her feet stuck in quicksand is, in my opinion, a true classic. By the time Miss Bennett found herself in this precarious situation she was years away from the classic Noirs she made with Fritz Lang (THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, SCARLET STREET). A quickly made (in ten days), low budget crime drama may be considered a comedown for an actress of…