Nothing Sacred Movie Review 1937

Slick, overzealous reporter takes advantage of a small-town girl's situation. As a publicity stunt, his newspaper brings her to the Big Apple to distract her from her supposedly imminent death in order to manipulate the public's sentiment as a means to sell more copy. Innocent young Lombard, however, is far from death's door, and deftly exploits her exploitation. Scathing indictment of the mass media and bovine mentality of the masses. Both hysterically funny and bitterly cynical; boasts Lombard's finest performance as the small-town rube who orchestrates the ruse. Remade in 1954 as "Living It Up." DVD version includes home movie footage of a Lombard-Gable hunting trip and two Mack Sennett shorts--"Campus Vamp" (1928) and "Matchmaking Mama."

Distribution

Video Connection, 3123 W. Sylvania Ave., Toledo, OH 43613, Phone: (419)472-7727, Toll-free: 800-365-0449, Fax: (419)472-2655

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 75 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Screwball Comedy, Front Page, Scams, Stings & Cons, Mass Media

Screenplay

Ben Hecht

Cast

Fredric March, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann, Charles Winninger, Margaret Hamilton

Cinematography

William Howard Greene

Director

William A. Wellman

Music

Oscar Levant

Producer

David O. Selznick