74. She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Directed By Lowell Sherman



Synopsis

Lady Lou is very successful as a singer in a saloon. Impressive diamond collection. Shady acquaintances. She falls in love with a guy from the mission next door. Oh noes! He's a detective. They get engaged.

Review

As you can see there is not much of a plot to the film, but Mae West makes up for it in spades. This film is basically a showcase for Mae West, she is fantastic throughout, more impressively it is based on one of her plays, so she wrote it as well!

Her dialogues are great, saucy and full of double entendres, and the unique dilivery of her lines is equally impressive. Mae West is, however, the only real reason to see this film, no other character is as interesting as her, even Cary Grant as the detective pales next to her.

The direction is also sub par, nothing particular to point out about it. It is still worth watching on the whole, with the sexually liberated Mae putting in a superb performance. So, watch it for her before the code put a dampener on her feisty demanour.

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Final Grade

7/10

Trivia

A scene from the film:



From Wikipedia:

Though Mae West's line is "Why don't you come up some time and see me?" in She Done Him Wrong, she changed it to "Come up and see me sometime" in her next movie, I'm No Angel, which was released the same year.