Nothing Sacred (1937)

Director: William Wellman  Starring: Fredric March  Carole Lombard  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Goodtimes
Format: DVD
UPC: 00018713504227
Buy.com Sku: 40700659
Item#: V3MYSY
Category Keywords: Classic  Essential Cinema  Recommended  Reporters  Satire  Scams And Cons  Vintage 
Rating: NR
 
 
Features: DVD
 
A classic screwball satire starring Carole Lombard as a small-town girl who mistakenly believes she's dying of radium poisoning.
 
"A marvelous black comedy..."  The Motion Picture Guide
"...hysterically funny..."  VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

 


Editor's Note

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.


Plot Summary

NOTHING SACRED is a lively comedy about a hotshot reporter who exploits the predicted death of a woman to make headlines, who in turn exploits her nonexistent illness to get a free trip to New York.

 
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Release Information
Studio: Goodtimes
Release Date: 1/25/2005
Running Time: 75 minutes
Original Release Date: 1937
Catalog ID: 05-50422
UPC: 00018713504227
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: B&W

Aspect Ratio
Standard  1.33:1 [4:3]

 
Cast & Crew
Carole Lombard
Charles Winninger
Frank Fay
Fredric March
Sig Ruman
Walter Connolly
Ben Hecht - Screenplay
Budd Schulberg - Screenplay
David O. Selznick - Producer
James E. Newcom - Editor
James H. Street - Screenplay
Oscar Levant - Musical Score
Ring Lardner, Jr. - Screenplay
W. Howard Greene - Director of Photography
William A. Wellman - Director

 
Professional Reviews
USA Today
"...It's an important part of screen history..." 11/12/1993 p.8D

The Motion Picture Guide 8 of 10
A marvelous black comedy full of wit and journalistic wisdom in the grand and capricious style of He
 
VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 7 of 10
Slick, overzealous reporter takes advantage of a small-town girl's situation. As a publicity stunt,
 

  
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