The movie we’re looking for is maybe one of the raciest of the pre-Code movies made by a major studio, Warner Brothers in this case. The movie itself is something like an early version of Madame X’s Just That Type Of Girl song (or the song is a late sound version of the movie), i.e. a woman who’s a gold digger and doesn’t mind to use her female power to get what she wants.

Anyway, the one song heard throughout the flick is W.C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues, either as instrumental or sung by Chico, the female protagonist’s partner in crime, friend and maid played by an African-American actress.

But back to the main character Lily Powers, who has had a very troubled childhood, since she’s been sold by her father to any man who offered enough money or like the corrupt politician Ed Sipple protection (who calls her sweetheart of the night shift) for the father’s speak easy.

Or to say it with Lily’s words:

Yeah, I’m a tramp, and who’s to blame? My father. A swell start you gave me. Ever since I was 14, what’s it been? Nothing but men! Dirty, rotten men! And you’re lower than any of them! I’ll hate you as long as I live!

So Lily isn’t too unhappy when her father dies in an explosion of his bootleg still. And then there’s Adolf Cragg who tells Lily to exploit herself and cites Nietzsche:

A woman, young, beautiful like you can get anything she wants in the world because you have power over men. But you must use men, not let them use you. You must be a master, not a slave.
Look. Here. Nietzsche says:
“All life, no matter how we idealize it is nothing more, nor less, than exploitation.”
That’s what I’m telling you. Exploit yourself. Go to some big city where you will find opportunities.
Use men. Be strong! Defiant! Use men to get the things you want!

And that’s just what Lily does, she travels to New York with Chico, pays for the trip with her body by seducing a train inspector and when in New York she climbs the ladder of success - wrong by wrong. From the Filing Dept. to the Mortgage Dept. to the Accounting Dept. of the Gotham Trust Company until she finally gets to the head of the bank.

To cut a long story short Lily becomes the notorious bank tragedy woman, spends some time in Paris, France, and finally gets half a million dollars. And promises herself “Someday I’ll have the other half that goes with it.” Actually things end a little bit different than Lily planned it.

The movie we’re looking for has been re-discovered as an unedited negative in the Library of Congress a few years ago and finally the world was able to see a rather uncensored version that adds a different meaning to this film than the version eventually approved by the Hays office in 1933. William Hays considered the movie demoralizing. And I’m sure there aren’t many movies even today, in which a father pimps his daughter, in which politicians trade patronage for sex and in which working people cheat on their wives or use the workplace for sex.

Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country.
Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts.
Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts.
Chief Inhabitants: Goats and Nuts.

Welcome to Klopstokia, a Ruritanian country where every man is named George and all the women are called Angela. And since this movie was made in 1932 and released a few weeks before the Los Angeles Olympics, everyone in the country is a super-athlete. Sweetheart, the main character of this wacky movie, is trying to assemble an Olympic team for the LA Olympics. Actually his name’s not Sweetheart but the president of Klopstokia calls him so.
Sweetheart’s in love with the president’s daughter, who is of course called Angela.

In a strange love scene they are both standing on a bridge and out of basket with the inscription Fire Angela produces an old family copy (printed on her grand-father by the way) of an Klopstokian love song.

“You know what?”
“What?”
“I love you.”
“In Klopstokia there’s another way of saying that.”
“In public?”
“Here is a song of love. It’s in the old Klopstokian language that we used to speak before we learned English. When you’ve learned to sing this, I know you really love me.”

The song itself has the unforgettable lyrics:

Woof Bloogle Gik Mow Gik Bloogle Woof Poof
Bloogle Ik Bow Ik Oogle Poof Quee

And then there’s Mata Machree, the woman no man can resist. As one of her butlers remarks “Madame is only resisted from 2 to 4 in the afternoon.”

I’m sure Mata Machree is not only irresistible but also the only woman who has her own light show in her mansion. And what an entrance she has with her own lighting director.

As a pre-Code movie it also features a risqué song Mata starts to sing as soon as she shows her teeth to the men who came to see her. “I know why you are here. I know everything. I even know what you think, you beast!”

When I Get Hot is a song rarely heard these days.

Maybe nobody dares to cover this little ditty because only the woman no man can resist can deliver it the right way.

With all these hints it should be very easy to guess the title of this insane comedy.