Stolen Heaven (1931) DVD-R

Starring Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern, Edward Keane,
Joan Carr
Directed by George Abbott

Print: black/white
Runtime: 76 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Nancy Carroll's popularity enabled her to survive the melodramatic
excesses of Stolen Heaven with little if any damage to her career. Carroll
plays Mary, the streetwalker sweetheart of born-loser Joe (Phillips
Holmes). Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to
spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide. But as time
passes, they decide that they might as well live. Joe confesses to the
robbery and willingly marches off to jail, secure in the understanding that
Mary will await his return. Louis Calhern makes an excellent first
impression as the film's nominal villain, only to completely disappear from
view in the final scenes. The 1938 musical drama Stolen Heaven is not a
remake.