Why Be Good? (1929)

A young flapper (Colleen Moore) enjoys the wild life but she's really a "good" girl. When the son (Neil Hamilton) of a rich businessman (Edward Martindel) falls for her, his father cautions him against girls like her. Directed by William A. Seiter (YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER). Ah, the 1920s! Flaming youth! Flappers and sheiks doing the Charleston and drinking booze from silver flasks! This silent movie captures the frenzied spirit of the era wonderfully but its story is bland and inane. It's just a routine cautionary tale though Colleen Moore has a fiery speech about men who push girls to dress and behave a certain way for their male pleasure and then judge them as "bad" girls. Colleen Moore is the reason to see the movie! With her bobbed hair, slinky chemise and frenetic dancing, she embodies the flaming youth of the jazz age as much as Clara Bow or Joan Crawford. With Bodil Rosing and John St. Polis.