NOTHING SACRED is a lively comedy about a hotshot reporter who exploits the predicted death of a woman to make headlines, who in turn exploits her nonexistent illness to get a free trip to New York.
USA Today, 11/12/1993, p.8D, "...It's an important part of screen history..."
Distributor Note
William Wellman (1937's A Star is Born) directs writer Ben Hecht's screwball laughfest and the result is one of the most memorable films from Hollywood's Golden Age. Fredric March stars as a cynical New York reporter taken in by the contrived story of Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), the beautiful babe from the woods who is supposedly dying of a fatal dose of radiation poisoning. Things begin to get complicated when Hazel lives too long and the reporter falls in love with his subject. Now he must concoct a way out of this delicate situation.
Source: Image Entertainment, Inc.
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 0 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33
DVD Features:
Region 0 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33
Product Notes
In this classic screwball comedy, Carole Lombard plays Hazel Flagg, a small-town girl who pretends to be dying from radium poisoning so she can win a free trip to New York City. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, the big-city newspaper reporter who sets up the plan by breaking the story and then complicates matters when he falls for Hazel. The result is a marvelous satire, directed by William Wellman and featuring terrific performances from the two leads as well as Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Carole Lombard offers up an ironic monologue about the beauty of dying in what was to be one of her last films prior to her real-life ending in a plane crash.
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