Forbidden

1932

Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 62% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 2248 2.2K

cuba cruise pre-code

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Plot summary

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.

Director

Frank Capra Photo
Frank Capra

Top cast

Barbara Stanwyck Photo
Barbara Stanwyck as Lulu
Charlotte Henry Photo
Charlotte Henry as Roberta - Age 18
Bess Flowers Photo
Bess Flowers as Gambler in Havana
Ralph Bellamy Photo
Ralph Bellamy as Holland
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
784.81 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 2
1.42 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by DukeEman 7 / 10

A fine melodrama.

Stanwyck plays a kept woman for a married politician. Out of her sheer devotion to him she decides not to cause a scandal when she falls pregnant. Instead, she disappears, but no sooner does the politician track her down and the film gets swept away by the melodrama of a soap opera. But what a fine melodrama this is. Capra managed to take the fat out of the story and move through time in great leaps and bounds. This film is full of surprises and never sells out to the moral crusaders of the time. Further more, the characters are human, playful, you feel for them as the story slowly sucks you in until you have no choice but to go along with the melodramatic symphony that plays with your heart and mind.
Reviewed by sdave7596 6 / 10

The actors rise above the jumbled script....

The three principle actors are the best thing about "Forbidden" released in 1932 by Columbia Pictures. Like most pre-code films, it dealt more frankly with story lines like extramarital affairs and unwed mothers. Lonely Stanwyck meets an outgoing man (Adolphe Menjou) and falls in love, not knowing he is married. She tries to do the right thing, staying away from him, and then has his baby without his knowledge. Well, they meet again, are off and on again, all the while Menjou's political career soars, and he stays married, raising the child as his and his wife's. Stanwyck stays the "other woman" for decades. Then there is the sleazy newspaper man (Ralph Bellamy) out to get Menjou and destroy his political career, and is also hot for Stanwyck, who works for his newspaper. It all turns pretty sordid, to say the least. The film has its flaws, and the script at times jumps about, but Barbara Stanwyck is good in anything she does, and it was nice to see Adolphe Menjou actually playing someone who is actually in love (and rather sweet in his own way) and not a sleazy stage producer, which seemed to be his usual role in the 1930's! I had no idea the newspaperman was Ralph Bellamy - he is very young and good looking here, although a slime ball. But he too turns in a good performance. These films remain important because they remind of us a time when films were more honest and blunt in their dealing with real life situations - before the enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934. This film was directed by Frank Capra - who would direct Stanwyck in some of her most memorable roles.
Reviewed by mcgee4468 8 / 10

Well-Written & Worth the Watch

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