The film that preceded Bette Davis' first Oscar-winning performance in 'Dangerous' was a typical Warners machine-gun crime drama of the 1930s. Lots of rat-a-tat-tat-tat shoot-outs, chases and even a romance. And all in a breathtaking 78 minutes with hardly a pause in the frantic action. The story is a straight lift from the real-life Al Capone story, with a racketeer being hounded for income tax evasion when all other methods fail. Bette, in one of her few blonde roles, is the book-keeper who double-crosses her boss for Uncle Sam and special agent George Brent (who she co-starred with 11 times and had a great off-screen romance). Watch closely for the scene where Brent moves his lips but no words come out. The Hays Office, who censored US films at the time, demanded a dialogue cut after the film was edited and there was no way to snip out the entire scene because it advanced the storyline. Brent and Davis could not be recalled to re-loop the offending lines because he was working on 'In Person' and she had started shooting 'Dangerous'. The answer was for the soundtrack to be cut and the scene kept rolling.


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