Hello, Sister! occupies an ambiguous place in von Stroheim’s canon. Although invaluable as Stroheim’s only sound film, it was also cut by the studio (Fox this time) before its release, with some scenes re-shot, particularly at the beginning and end of the film. For this adaptation of a play, von Stroheim once again employed the tragic comedy of ZaSu Pitts whose character’s own disappointments in love prompt her to thwart the budding romance between an attractive roommate and her suitor. With a plot featuring prostitution, unplanned pregnancy, attempted suicide and lesbian overtones, the film is recognizably pre-Code and, for much of its central section, recognizably von Stroheim, particularly the fistfight between a courting couple that serves as sadomasochistic foreplay.