What makes this film worth watching is experimentation with seemingly modern camera angles, a tight ensemble cast and elegant cinematography depicting postcard rural and urban life. Though the plot sketch mimics moral melodrama the underlying premise is hard to grasp. Each character in the tight ensemble feels they are doing the right thing and the storyboard seems to move to give each their just desserts yet they all engage in actions many consider improper - THEY CALL IT SIN. As one example Loretta Young as the the heroine is unjustly thrown out on the street in Kansas to then be unjustly fired from a New York City job for refusing sexual favors from a boss who steals her ticket to fame - her wonderful music compositions. While we feel sorry for her character and think she deserves a happy ending much of what she does and how she handles the final scene would be considered sinful in the 1934 Hays code. This seems the template for the dichotomy of each and very fictitious character in the ensemble cast.
Review of They Call It Sin
