Sexual aberrations, female libido, judicial corruption, adultery, prostitution, forbidden alcohol, murder, racism, social hypocrisy, crude language, corruption. In that Sodom and Gomorrah that so well materialized the recently deceased Kenneth Anger in Hollywood Babylon the private life of silent film stars was full of excesses.
The arrival of sound was a new way of narrating. Image and word formed a tandem as attractive as dangerous for the prevailing morality of an era devastated by the Crack of 29. From 1929 to 1934 freedom of expression reached levels unimaginable even for today's currents.