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A Free Soul was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 (along with The Divorcee, also starring Norma Shearer), as one of five pre-Code films in the TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 DVD box set.
- You choose, think and act without the need for anyone’s approval. If you have reached that point in your life where you do not need the approval of others, it means you have achieved true freedom.
- You live fearlessly and have a great confidence in yourself. Experts in the sphere of personal development and motivational psychology know well that fear is the enemy of great opportunities.
- You are a sincere, daring and spontaneous person. Some of your key personality traits are sincerity but also a kind of impertinence. You’re spontaneous because you do not care what people say or think.
- You know what you fight for. Despite the opinion of many people, being a free soul means not to shy away from responsibilities or to aspire to a foolish freedom.
Free Soul, A (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Fighting Mad Mighty Quick Sound quality confirms they really went to the beach, where Dwight (Leslie Howard) shows impeccable form, getting the brush-off from betrothed Jan (Norma Shearer), in A Free Soul, 1931, from the novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
- Clarence Brown, Charles Dorian
- Norma Shearer
- Proof That It’S Pre-Code
- A Free Soul: Class Warfare
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The opening moments of the movie show Norma Sherer’s Jan nude in silhouette. She asks her father to bring her some underwear.One of Sherer’s dresses for this film is so sheer that you can see that it’s apparently quite chilly on set.Jan and Ace conduct themselves in a great deal of great premarital sex.When dressing down Ace, Stephen lists his crimes, besides being a mobster, as dealing opium and white slavery.Sitting firmly on that line between daring and dull is 1931’s A Free Soul. The story of a father-daughter relationship and how it’s almost ruined by their vices has a strong start and a ludicrous finish– but, of course, we’ll get to that in a minute or so. Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer) and her father Stephen (Lionel Barrymore) are members of the elite (...
A more in-depth discussion of this movie is available in 3rd issue of The Pre-Code Companion. You can also see other available issues and topics covered in the series by clicking hereor on the bann...
This film is available as part of the Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 2 set along with The Divorcee, Three on a Match, Female, and Night Nurse. You can pick it up over at Amazon.- 5 min
A Free Soul ★★½ 1931 Tippling litigator Barrymore helps low-life mobster Gable beat a murder rap, only to discover the hood has stolen his daughter's heart. Bargaining with his ditzy daughter, he vows to eschew the bottle if she'll stay away from good-for-nothing Gable.
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. Lionel Barrymore is on quite good form here as the drunken, but accomplished, lawyer "Ashe" who manages to get the young "Ace" (Clark Gable) off on a charge of murder (it's all to ...
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A Free Soul is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable.
