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.Doherty, pp. 113–114
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.
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