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Interesting low-budget film and one of Claire Windsor's last starring vehicles. She plays a hard-working girl (she was 40) at a publishing house who tries to end it all when her boss drops in and discovers she lives in a slum with her washer-woman mother and 2 bum brothers. She figures she's lost that promotion.

But she's saved by a stranger (John Harron) who's about to publish a book. He gets some money and they are married, but the brothers swindle him out of the cash and he falls in with them, ending up in jail after the wife turns him in. Sister to Judas!

Windsor is terrific, very understated, and she looks great. It's easy to see what her appeal was in silent films. Harron (brother of Robert) is also very good. Holmes Herbert, Lee Moran (the Ray Bolger lookalike), Stella Adams, Virginia True Boardman, and Wilfred Lucas round out the cast.

Sounds something like a recapitulation of her role in The Blot. Now if anyone deserved roles that allowed her to play the Park Avenue "clotheshorse" (to me, a complimentary term), it was beautiful, elegant Claire...who also moonlighted as a high-fashion model, as it appears from certain early color film clips once posted on the Eastman House site. She damned sure deserved better than "low-budget." Never seen her in a talkie, so I'd love to see this one.

I got it on the cheap from oldies.com (a pretty good source for cheapo films).....

If you've not got this one already, I found it on YouTube amongst an avalanche of 1932-33 films which were unknown or nearly unknown to me. Far too many to download or see, unfortunately. What a comparison with the tv stations where very few films of this vintage get shown. Even 20-40 years ago, it was usually the more famous ones getting aired, with an odd obscurity popping up. And does SISTER TO JUDAS exist in a print with the original title cards?

I just posted 19 stills from "Sister to Judas" on the Claire Windsor website:

http://clairewindsor.weebly.com/sister-to-judas.html" target="_blank

Really good film. It was almost heading into the insufferable melodrama territory but it veered
away from it nicely.