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The Prodigal is a 1931 Pre-Code early talkie film starring Lawrence Tibbett, Esther Ralston, Roland Young and Hedda Hopper. The film was extremely provocative in its time in that it viewed adultery in a non-judgmental, even positive light.
Plot
Cast
Lawrence Tibbett as Jeffrey Farraday
Esther Ralston as Antonia Farraday
Roland Young as Doc aka Somerset Greenman
Cliff Edwards as Snipe, a Tramp
Purnell Pratt as Rodman Farraday
Hedda Hopper as Christine
Emma Dunn as Mrs. Cynthia Farraday
Stepin Fetchit as Hokey
Louis John Bartels as George
Theodore von Eltz as Carter Jerome
Wally Albright as Peter
Susanne Ransom as Elsbeth
Gertrude Howard as Naomi
John Larkin as Andrew Jackson Jones
See also
Pre-Code sex films
References
Sources
Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press 1999. ISBN 0-231-11094-4
External links
The Prodigal at the TCM Movie Database
The Prodigal at IMDb
The Prodigal at AllMovie
The Prodigal at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Lawrence Tibbett sings "The Peanut Vendor" from The Prodigal on YouTube, excerpt
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- Vera Reynolds
- Ernest Torrence
- Purnell Pratt
- Manuel Arbó
- Monte M. Katterjohn
- Andrew Marton
- Louis Calhern
- Edward Dillon (pemeran)
- Ralph Graves
- Kate Bruce
- The Prodigal (1931 film)
- The Prodigal Son
- The Prodigal (disambiguation)
- Tonight or Never (1931 film)
- List of American films of 1931
- The Bride!
- List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1930–1939)
- Pre-Code sex films
- 1983 in film
- Pre-Code Hollywood
