(Cecil B. DeMille, US 1930, 115 min.)

An extravagantly designed and positively loopy pre-code musical, Madam Satan is legendary director DeMille’s moralistic yet lighthearted story of infidelity among the filthy rich. A wife (Kay Johnson) tries to lure her husband (Reginald Denny) away from his trashy showgirl mistress (Lillian Roth) by posing as the mysterious title character. Always the showman, DeMille’s signature spectacular set piece is an orgiastic costume ball set aboard a crashing zeppelin.