Employee's Entrance (1933)

The ruthless head (Warren William) of a Manhattan department store has no time for a personal life. He lives for work and uses and discards people regularly with no regret. He gives a pretty young thing (Loretta Young) a job but only after he beds her and then forgets about her. He makes an ambitious employee (Wallace Ford) his right hand man, not knowing that he's in love with the discarded miss. Based on the play by David Boehm and directed by Roy Del Ruth (DUBARRY WAS A LADY). I found this pre code drama grandly entertaining. Most of these pre code films were short (this one runs an hour and 15 minutes) and tight without unnecessary excess. Loretta Young is sweet and pliable and she and Wallace Ford make for an appealing couple while Warren William is perfect as the stone hearted bulldozing department store executive. He's a total prick and very cruel but you can't help liking him. With Ruth Donnelly, Alice White, Albert Gran and Marjorie Gateson.