Directed by Gregory La Cava
The first 30 minutes of The Age of Consent may be the randiest of the pre-Code era---the entire campus of “State College” seems awash in over-sexed undergrads---a wave of hormones met head-on by the forces of repression in the second half. Brushing off standard issue Hollywood punishment, director Gregory La Cava orchestrates such an unexpected interrogation of the nature of morality itself it’s hard to read the ending as anything but deeply ironic.
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Producer: David O. Selznick. Screenwriter: Sarah Y. Mason, Francis M. Cockrell. Cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt. Editor: Jack Kitchin. Cast: Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden, John Halliday.
35mm, b/w, 63 min.
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