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25 November 1937 (USA)
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See the big fight! LOMBARD vs MARCH. Selznick International's sensational Technicolor comedy
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To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel Flagg...
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A Conversation with Ann Jones and Betsy Reed: 'Women who Kill'
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Pre-Code Wellman and Godard's Code Unknown
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(From pretty-scary. 20 October 2009, 3:27 PM, PDT)
Pre-Code Wellman and Godard's Code Unknown
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(Complete credited cast) | Carole Lombard | ... | Hazel Flagg |
 | Fredric March | ... | Wallace 'Wally' Cook |
 | Charles Winninger | ... | Dr. Enoch Downer |
| Walter Connolly | ... | Oliver Stone |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer of Vienna (as Sig Rumann) |
| Frank Fay | ... | Master of Ceremonies |
| Troy Brown Jr. | ... | Ernest Walker (as Troy Brown) |
| Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom | ... | Max Levinsky (as Maxie Rosenbloom) |
| Margaret Hamilton | ... | Warsaw, Vermont Drugstore Lady |
| Olin Howland | ... | Will Bull / Warsaw Vermont Baggage Man |
| Raymond Scott | ... | Musical Leader (as Raymond Scott and His Quintet) |
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77 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Portugal:M/12 |
Canada:G (Ontario) |
Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) |
France:U |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (certificate # 3744)
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Finnish video censorship certificate # T-21592 delivered on 9-9-1993.
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[introducing on stage performer on horseback] Katinka who saved Holland by putting her finger in the dyke. Show them the finger babe.
Katinka: [extends bandaged middle finger to audience]
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Katinka: [extends bandaged middle finger to audience]
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William Wellman was really a helluva director. Anyone that can do a movie like this, and make "The Ox-Bow Incident" too, must have been born to direct.
Coming in at a breezy 75 minutes, "Nothing Sacred" is still very funny on several levels, for several different reasons. Plot does not matter as much as execution, and how you deliver a line matters more than the line itself.
Frederic March and Carole Lombard are perfect, and the supporting cast is just as good, especially the actor who played 'Oliver Stone', March's frustrated boss.
Wellman does unconventional things like make the actors faces be hidden by a tree branch, practically unheard of in that day and age. But the fact of the matter is, that sometimes people are not perfectly framed in life, so maybe they shouldn't be in the movies - at least not as a rule. The first time you get a good look at Lombard, she has shaving cream on her face from kissing a man who is shaving - also not the normal star-moment you might expect.
Just terrific. 9/10.