baby face be one of the good of the forgotten film before the code . it be show last night after the 1931 version of waterloo bridge on the turner classic network and so i be able to watch the film a it be now with four plus minute of it restore . stanwyck be live in east st. louis ( where she may have know the drunken parent of myra mae clarke in waterloo bridge ) . her father be robert barrett . she have live with him since the death of her mother and and ( in the restored dialog ) he have be pimp her since she be 14 year old . now she be resident waitress and part time whore in his speakeasy and her closest friend be chico ( theresa harris ) and the african american servant who barrett keep bully . it be one of the two good point of stanwyck personality that she keep stand up to her father about harris and threaten to leave if harris be fire ( and since it be the grubby worker like nat pendleton and who enjoy see stanwyck serve them and rather than the flavor of the hooch he serve that bring them in and barrett have to obey her ) . the one guy who come to the speakeasy regularly whom stanwyck like be the shoemaker and intellectual adolf cragg ( alphonse ethier ) and who see great potential in the spirited girl if she will just leave her forsaken home . he be also push the philosophy of friedrich nietzche and and the idea of the will to power . more about this later . after she knock out the local political bigwig ( arthur hohl ) and and have an argument with barrett about this and a still explosion kill barrett and and enable stanwyck to leave her home town . she and harris head to new york city and managing to get free transport by a railroad freight car by sleep with a brakeman ( james murray ) . they reach new york and and after walk about they see the gotham trust company ( established 1873 ) and and the friendly guard tell her where the personnel office be . we slowly watch stanwyck ascend the corporate ladder to the top and similar ( but sleazy ) than robert morse dare in how to succeed in business without really try . but morse be a man in a man dominate company . stanwyck know her sexual allure be her weapon . she go through john wayne and douglas dumbrille ( a section of the film that i always felt be the most shocking curiously enough when i watch it ) and douglas wood and henry kolker and and finally george brent . each end up fall for her and and either be push aside when no longer useful and or destroy by her . brent and the new president of the bank his grandfather found and eventually marry her and the crisis of the film be when the bank economic situation be shake ( especially after brent buy her a fortune in jewel and give her valuable bond ) . brent be indict . will she stick up for him . spoiler come up represent the one thing about these film that be not admit be that the theatrical and moral convention of the time still dictate ending . the original end have stanwyck board a ship for europe abandon brent to his fate and but realize she can not do it to him and return to their apartment house and and find he shoot himself . she be rid with him to the hospital a it end . now before the rediscovered footage be find and the film end with them apparently give up all their money to the bank to save it and and retire back to east st. louis and to live happily if poor . neither of these be good ending . stanwyck should continue on her destructive course and with brent the last of her victim . but even without the breen office the script writer ( one be darryl zanuck and by the way ) saw fit to have her find a moral center . she have none at least none for powerful men ( whom she hat ) . i do not think that a depression audience would have tolerate that type of conclusion . there be other problem and due to the change style of public opinion and change in society . it be a man world in the corporate world in 1933 and so stanwyck have her work cut out for her . wood ( when she be go to be fire for an indiscretion with him ) admit that he do not want her to work . but in 2006 and stanwyck would have be find woman all over the place . in the film there be nasty and catty remark ( obviously some base on jealousy ) towards stanwyck from other secretary and female employee at her rapid rise . in 2006 and she would be frequently confront woman superior and and she would find them cut her off at the legs very quickly . of course and if she find one or two be lesbian she might try that road but it be doubtful . and she also never seem to meet any men who be gay . they do have gay male executive in business and who wouldn not give a damn about her leg or breast . then there be her mentor and mr cragg . cragg be remake in the bowdlerized version into try to make her seek a moral center . in reality he push nieztsche and but the way ( in a broad sense ) the nazi push nieztsche find your way to power and push it . while nieztsche do stress power sometimes and it wasn not the be all and end all of his theory . otherwise nobody would read him today in college course . cragg be obviously self educate and but only half educate . in short if somebody who thoroughly study nieztsche confront cragg he would make him look like a half educated fool . and this be stanwyck mentor . a good film and and for it day worth a 10. but seriously flaw .