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Wally Cook’s a big city reporter with the New York daily, The Morning Star. When he lets himself (and his paper) get hoodwinked by a Harlem bootblack pretending to be a potentate from the Orient, he gets sent to Siberia, or something like it.
After a short stint writing obituaries, he begs his boss to let him back on the beat. His boss, a newspaperman named Oliver Stone (like the conspiracy theorist filmmaker) sends him to Warsaw, Vermont to cover a real tearjerker of a story.
Wally gets to Warsaw only to discover that the townspeople don’t much cotton to his muckraking ways or big city manners. Some kids on a truck pelt him with rotten vegetable matter, while an even feistier and fiercer little kid bites him on the back of his leg.
He somehow survives these encounters to meet Hazel Flagg, a dreamy-eyed stunner who, unfortunately, has a bad case of radium poisoning, and consequently only a few weeks to live. Wally’s mission is to get her back to New York, where her tragedy can be exploited to sell newspapers featuring maudlin headlines. If Wally can work the public really well, he’ll not only no longer be in Dutch with his boss, but might even get a promotion.
There are a couple problems, though. One is that Wally is tumbling hard for the smalltown dame, which is starting to cloud his gimlet eye with stars. The other issue? Hazel’s a simulator, a phony who uses her misdiagnosis to hitch a ride to the Big Apple.
Nothing Sacred is fairly jaded for an early 30s screwball comedy, which is probably why it didn’t do boffo like Ms. Lombard’s more successful features. Depression audiences, for the most part, got enough sour medicine on a daily basis to want nothing but stuff sugary to the point of being treacle at the movies. Naturally, though, what went over like the Hindenburg back then has only aged like fine wine.
There are some film historians and fans of classics, in fact, who insist Nothing Sacred is about as good as it gets. I liked it, and laughed hard at some of the funnier bits (including a fistfight between Hazel and Wally). The two show the good anti-chemistry of lovers who hate each other and it’s fun watching them do their Apache war dance en route to the inevitable reconciliation.
But other bits fall flatter than two day-old soda, and at something like seventy-minutes (it wouldn’t even qualify for feature film length these days) it still lags in spots. Still, when Lombard and March cook, they really sizzle.
Keep your eye out for nice little supporting roles by Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch) as a pointy-chinned, small town biddy, and boxer “Slapsy” Maxie Rosenbloom as a heavy. The original screenplay was by Ben Hecht, but the film’s accompanying notes assert he bowed out early due to creative differences.
Recommended, for fans of screwball comedy in general, and Ms. Lombard and Mr. March, in particular.
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Great movie! This is the best copy ever!
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
A true classic film. An early color effort with the best of everything: script, cast, production values (for 1937). It still holds up. A truly historic example of a screwball comedy. This was filmed pre Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. The visual image isn’t as good, but for film buffs, it is amazing.Lombard steals the show (as she does in every film she’s in). In her own, somewhat odd manner, she’s truly Beautiful, too. The audio track, which is often overlooked on restorations, is very good.Obviously, I’m suggesting that all film lovers see this film, and see it on this Blu-ray edition.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
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Nothing Sacred....apart from Carole Lombard, that is
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 1, 2018Robert M Robinson
A revelation.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 8, 2019QuestJonMark
Everything's Divine with "Nothing Sacred."
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 21, 2018
Everything's Divine with "Nothing Sacred."
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 21, 2018
This newly released 20NOV2018 KINO LORBER edition arrived from amazon.ca Prime today, and t'was in the bluray player moments later. To quote a great man--the bluray's first amazon.com fan named Fred--there's, "No need to review the movie--it's fantastic of course--" So, let's get technical, technical. The grain of the original film source is just the exactly right amounts grainy; the colours of this early Technicolor offering just pop off/on the screen; the focus is indubitably focused--that's why they paid cinematographer W. Howard Green so much; the depth of field image is evident as never before in any one of those other public-domain release blunders, eclipsing them so much so that it almost comes across as 9D; and William Wellman Jr.'s Commentary is anything but common--having the great benefit of growing up in the world in which--as he so proudly gets to say over & over again--"MY FATHER," was one of the truly great directors of the time.Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 21, 2018
P.S. One of Jr.'s insight corrects a think I'd always thought, which was that HE plays the kid who gnaws on Mr. Cook's leg shortly after arriving in Warsaw, Vt.; but he informs that it was actually the one and only Billy Barty. Beautiful.
P.P.S. The detail is so remarkable that I'd never ever noticed in any other video release, that someone actually emerges from the front door Selznick International Pictures' building. I wonder if it may be even be David Zero himself(?)
To those who can't stand this gem, aren't able to find the humour in it at all; all I have to say to them is well...all I can say is some things may be Sacred, but nothing and nobody's perfect--and by that I mean You!
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