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Nothing Sacred

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Nothing Sacred
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NR,1hr 15min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1937
Director:
William Wellman
Distributor:
Sling Shot
Starring:
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger  ...more
Synopsis: "This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot reporter condemned to writing obituaries because of his unwitting complicity in a fraud. Anxious to get back in the good graces of his editor Oliver Stone ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Nothing Sacred is among the best screwball comedies of the 1930s, and one of the few to have been filmed in Technicolor. Carole Lombard and Fredric March lead a strong, versatile cast, and William Wellman's crisp direction keeps the story brisk and peppy. Screenwriter Ben Hecht gives the story an unusually sardonic edge, with fine dialogue and interesting secondary plot twists. Overall, the film plays ... Full Review
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Carole Lombard
Hazel Flagg
Fredric March
Wally Cook
Charles Winninger
Dr. Enoch Downer
Walter Connolly
Oliver Stone
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