Why Be Good?
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. Lost for multiple decades, a 35mm print of Why Be Good? was discovered in an Italian archive in the late 1990's. It follows a man whose father states that the women of that time have no virtues. The woman he is interested in has her father repeat something similar about young men of the time. Eventually the young man decides to "test" the virtue of the woman he is in love with.
Why this is free to watch
Why Be Good? (1929) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- William A. Seiter
- Starring
- Colleen Moore, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis, Neil Hamilton, Edward Martindel, Louis Natheaux, Lincoln Stedman, Eddie Clayton
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