Merrily We Go to Hell
“In her innocence she expected days and nights of tender love. What she got was a Bitter Shock!”
ComedyDramaRomance
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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A boozy, pre-Code dive into the destructive cycles of addiction and the often-doomed pursuit of artistic success. It's a wry, melancholic look at love's struggle against self-sabotage, wrapped in dramatic, romantic flair.
wrymelancholiccynicalboozysteadypre-codedramaticromanticblack-and-whiteloveaddictionartself-destruction
pre-codewoman director
