Jewel Robbery (1932)

A jewel thief and a rich woman fall in love with each other during a robbery on a jewel store.

Interesting movie. It's perhaps undecidable whether it is an indictment of capitalism or a celebration of it. In other words, it's hard or impossible to say whether it is an immoral film or a moral satire. Or, perhaps the right move is to steer away from Marx and to Freud; that way, the film would be construed as loaded with phallic symbology, viz., the act of forcing oneself into other people's property is tantamount to a display of male erotic power. Or, alas, maybe it's just a silly pre-code movie, a fossil of an era which lasted for a little while and never returned, for some reason. And here is where we should perhaps return to Marx, who said that history only repeats itself as farce, which, here, is probably the sixties.
It's number eight in Dale Thomajan's top ten list for 1932.
Obs.: I should watch it again if I want to understand better what the characters say.

Rating: 61