Nothing Sacred (1937)
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: In this classic screwball comedy, Carole Lombard plays Hazel Flagg, a small-town girl who pretends to be dying from radium poisoning so she can win a free trip to New York City. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, the big-city newspaper reporter who sets up the plan by breaking the story and then... In this classic screwball comedy, Carole Lombard plays Hazel Flagg, a small-town girl who pretends to be dying from radium poisoning so she can win a free trip to New York City. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, the big-city newspaper reporter who sets up the plan by breaking the story and then complicates matters when he falls for Hazel. The result is a marvelous satire, directed by William Wellman and featuring terrific performances from the two leads as well as Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Carole Lombard offers up an ironic monologue about the beauty of dying in what was to be one of her last films prior to her real-life ending in a plane crash. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Sig Ruman
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 25, 2005
DVD Features:
- Region (Unknown)
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
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Reviews
Classically funny Wellman screwball comedy starring wonderful Lombard, equalled by March.
The film has been perceived as a satire on yellow journalism due to Hect'd experience. There's a key line in which a NY journalst is told: A Newspaperman? The hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depth of degradation

