Convention City

Convention City is a 1933 pre-Code comedy film produced by First National Pictures and released by Warner Brothers, which has become notorious as a lost film. The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when a jealous saleswoman Arlene Dale interferes with... his attempted seduction of J.B.'s daughter and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine . The position of salesmanager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator". During production the film had MPPDA censorship problems. Jack Warner warned Hal Wallis that he may be going too far in the costuming: In addition, several lines were ordered removed by the MPPDA censors including: Script changes, suggested by Wingate, Jason S.
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