Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume 1 (Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman / Waterloo Bridge) (2-Disc)

BABY FACE: Get a glimpse of Hollywood at the height of its pre-Production Code licentiousness in BABY FACE. Barbara Stanwyck takes the easy way from the speakeasy on the bottom floor to the penthouse executive suite of a New York office building, leaving behind a trail of discarded men in her wake.

RED-HEADED WOMAN: Jean Harlow stars as Lil, a red-headed temptress who forces Bill (Chester Morris) to leave his wife for her in this shocker from 1932. But Lil isn't satisfied with seducing Bill away from his marital bliss, and embarks on a string of affairs that must have made for unsettling viewing back in the day.

WATERLOO BRIDGE: Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of Robert L. Sherwood's play. Douglass Montgomery (here credited as Kent Douglass) plays a young American soldier who, while on leave from World War I, meets Myra (Clarke) during an air raid in London and falls in love with her, unaware she is a prostitute. Directed with a delicate mixture of realism and impressionism by James Whale.