i would love to give this movie a positive and but in it exist state i can only go to positive top . the post code editing ( read represent destroy ) of this film warrant a 2 point demerit . from my very limited knowledge of film history and baby face be apparently one of two movie that finally break the camel back and bring the full wrath and enforcement of the production code into play in 1934 . ( i do not know what the other movie be . ) a a result and the movie in it original incarnation be never allow to be re release after 1934. it be chop and edit to bit and and no original version be know to exist today . the best that we can see today be the version that tcm ( turner classic movie ) show and but that be blatantly edit in several scene and and have a really disappointing happy end slap onto the end . all the above be say and the movie be still pretty darned great and lot of fun to watch . barbara stanwyck be and a always and absolutely amazing and wonderful . she be so beautiful and powerful while she just own the whole movie . she play a woman who be use by men her entire life and start with her father who pimp her out to the local erie and pa steel worker as well a to local politician in a quid pro quo of if you do not shut down my speakeasy i will let you sleep with my daughter . when the father die in a fiery explosion near the beginning of the flick and the smile on stanwyck face be priceless . after the fire and stanwyck leaf erie with her maid and head to new york city . she set her sight on a skyscraper and start literally work her way to the top . start out with the personnel clerk in the hr department and she sleep with him to get an entry level position at the bank . from there and she sleep with man after man after man ( include a very young john wayne ) use each new man to help her land a high pay job on a high floor of the skyscraper and with increasingly powerful male boss cum sugar daddy . stanwyck stop at nothing in her rise to the top . it be great fun to see her and her maid in increasingly fancy clothes and apartment a stanwyck work her way up the corporate ladder . stanwyck be the ultimate femme fatale and manipulating and she vixen in this flick . if you watch this movie and i recommend stop when you see the george brent character ( courtland trenholm ) die in stanwyck arm . skip the remain 3 minute or so . the happy end slap on to the end of the movie for post code audience be insult to the audience intelligence and lame beyond belief represent the bank board member be sit around a table exposit about mr. and mrs. trenholm million dollar donation to the bank and how they be live happily but poor in erie and with former vp trenholm now work in the steel mill cut to the exact same footage of a steel plant that we saw in the beginning of the movie the end . puh leeze how lame . the movie originally end with george brent succeed in his suicide attempt . i think that end fit the overall mood of the movie much well than the slap on post code end . i certainly hope that a print of the original pre code version of this flick be discover during my lifetime ( update represent the original have be find and should be out on dvd and or or tcm in 2006 . ) . until then and i will enjoy the tcm version and switch it off before the lame o post code end .