A Cathedral of Sin & Delicious Deceits

The enthusiastic indulgences of love, lust, booze, hallucinogenics and illegal activities in the media matrix of the early 1930s was a spherical sensation into the imagination.

"The more you see, the more you want to see," he said to Joan Blondell, pictured above in "Union Depot."    

Two Daisies, prostitutes shown scouting out various sailors in 1932s "Union Depot." This movie is complete with murder, adultery, excessive boozing and grand theft. Blondell is the focal female character in this 1932 film gem.  

Obviously movies today display sexuality and vices more vividly, but the writers and actors in "Union Depot" got their point across clearly and concisely. 

Fornication, such as adultery had to result in ill consequences by a film's end in July of 1934. Biblically written laws were enforced in mainstream movies by then, and it wasn't until 1968 that our current movie rating system was implemented and 100 percent of the insane censorship laws was dissolved. 

Shirley Temple starred in three movies in 1934, and by 1935 Temple was the number one box office draw in America if not the world for the next three years. She became Hollywood's mascot of morality after the Hollywood Pre-Code era of 1930-1934.     

Mark Izzy Schurr