# Why Be Good (1929)

I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. Lost for multiple decades, a 35mm print of Why Be Good? was discovered in an Italian archive in the late 1990's. It follows a man whose father states that the women of that time have no virtues. The woman he is interested in has her father repeat something similar about young men of the time. Eventually the young man decides to "test" the virtue of the woman he is in love with.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1929
- By: William A. Seiter, Paul Perez, Carey Wilson
- Genres: Comedy, Romance, Silent
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/why-be-good-1929_202507)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/why-be-good-1929_202507?play=1)