The Sin of Nora Moran is neither classic nor camp but a unique melange of both. Its standard pre-Code plot (victimized woman descends into a life of degradation) and extremely low budget were common to B pictures of the period. But it's the telling of the story that elevates Nora Moran into a class all its own. This it accomplishes through a series of flashbacks, flash-forwards, and flashbacks-within-flashbacks so complex that the entire narrative structure quickly ceases to make sense, assuming a free-form, dreamlike quality that enhances the film rather than detracts from it. Contemporary reviews likened it to The Power and the Glory, due to its borrowing of that picture's "narratage" device. Certainly nothing like Nora Moran ever had come from Phil Goldstone, whose best-known effort remains The Vampire Bat (1933). However Nora Moran happened, film buffs can only be grateful. Haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitive-it may be the best B movie of the thirties.Preservation funded by The Packard Humanities Institute.