The movie stars Carole Lombard (To Be or Not to Be, Big News), Fredric March (Alexander the Great, So Ends our Night), Charles Winninger (State Fair, Pot o' Gold), Walter Connolly (The Good Earth, It Happened One Night), and Sig Ruman (Stalag 17, To Be or Not to Be).
The plot of the movie is a newspaper reporter, March, comes to small town Vermont in search of his next big story. A girl, Lombard, dying of radium poisoning. They head back to New York City, fall in love, and try to come up to a solution to the problem that Lombard is not sick.
This movie did not start too well. There were racists overtones and a feeling of the Jim Crow era. The editor comes across as one dimentional. The scenes in Vermont I thought were weird. The people were jaded and so filled of hate and mistrust it did not ring true to me of what small towns were like. I could be wrong but the bitterness of Vermont seemed weird. There was a scene where Lombard and March stopped and had dialog with a branch blocking out there faces. I though that was not good blocking.
I suspose they may of been going as something like a mistaken identy plot or a comedy of errors. For me it was just people only out for themselves and damn everyone else. The last line was so out of place and was totally out of the blue. It seemed that the ran out of film mid sentence and just decided to call it a day.
Im rating this movie as a D. I think the movies that are this old I just dont understand. It may be I just dont understand the diffrent generation of movies. Im not saying they are bad but its like i have nothing in common with the era and just dont understand what they are going for. My advice get a root canal it will bem a less painful event then getting through this movie.
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