Elinor Glyn believed strongly that a man or woman could, by self-discipline, observation and practice of imitating role models plus strict adherence to exercises, alter both their exterior look and their interior sense of self. In her fiction, this leads to the desired outcome: winning the beloved, marrying the otherwise unattainable boss, or climbing the ranks in business and society. 

Such Men are Dangerous was made in 1930 in both silent and talkie versions, as the publicity said ‘Now you can hear ‘IT’’.

The story was written for Hearst’s Cosmopolitan magazine. Glyn invents for her hero a parachute the size of a dozen business letters and a small twin person submarine which can be hidden on board a cargo ship. Her science fiction extends to the astounding effects of plastic surgery on the body.

There is a copy of the talkie on YouTube but a better restored version of the silent was made at the Eye Filmmuseum in the Netherlands.