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Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

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Date: 13 Jun 2015 12:14:00
Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

Nothing Sacred (1937)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:13:41 | 2,99 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger

Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel's valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper. He proposes to take Hazel to New York both to report on her story but also to provide her with a grand farewell to life. She accepts. Wally's story results in Hazel becoming the toast of New York…

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Four writers contributed to the screenplay of William A. Wellman's screwball comedy, though it bears the signature of Ben Hecht, who changed the locale of James H. Street's story from Mount Ida, Arkansa to Warsaw, Vermont.

The movie has been interpreted as a satire on “yellow” journalism because of Hecht's personal experience and previous scripts on the subject. There is a key line in the film in which a New York journalist is told: “A newspaperman, huh The hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depth of degradation!”

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

Nonetheless, the movie's issues are broader than journalism, dealing with the creation of instant celebrities (a topic ahead of its time), corruption, and excessive materialism. Perhaps more significantly, the movie presents a counter-view to Hollywood's predominant imagery of small-town. Nothing Sacred is a rare film in that it suggests that there are no significant differences between small-town and big city's folks since their conduct is shaped by similar (selfish) motivations.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

The protagonist, Hazel Flagg (Carol Lombarde), lives in Warsaw, a small town dominated by the Paragon Watch Company. Like many young people, she has always dreamed of visiting the glamorous city. The opportunity comes when Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger) informs her that she is a victim of radium poisoning (contracted at the factory) and has only a few months to live.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

The story of her impending death reaches Wally Cook (Fredric March), a down-on-his-luck journalist. Cook has fallen out of favor with his cynical and dyspeptic managing editor, when he tried to pass off a poor black man as the “Sultan of Marzipan,” a prospective donor of a huge amount of money for an art institute. However, during the dignified banquet, the black man is exposed by his wife and his kids and Cook is demoted to writing obituaries in a small corner of the office.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

Anxious to get out of this rut, Cook seizes the opportunity of advertising Hazel's radium poisoning in the form of an expose titled “The last days of a courageous girl.” By exploiting her, he hopes to enhance his prestige and also increase the paper's circulation. Little does he know that, in the meantime, Dr. Downer has changed his diagnosis. “You're not going to die,” he informs Hazel, “unless you're going to be run over.”

Extremely distressed, her plan to go to New York and “die happily” goes down the drain. Disappointed, she cries: “To be brought to life twice, and each time in Warsaw!” But shrewd and unscrupulous, Hazel persuades her doctor to maintain the story of her death.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

The only scene in Warsaw occurs early on, when Cook arrives to meet Hazel. It is far from the idealized and hospitable small-town of the Capra movies. Upon arrival, the baggage man refuses to take Cook to Hazel's residence, warning that no one in town will talk to him; the only reason he responded was to get his money. The drugstore lady is not much friendlier, answering his questions as laconically as possible, with yeps and nopes. She, too, is greedy, grabbing his coin. And Dr. Downer's housekeeper is just as reserved and uninviting as the others. “Tell him yourself,” she tells Cook, when he
asks to be announced.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

Walking in the town's streets is no fun either. Children on an ice wagon throw bits of ice; a maniacal child runs out after Cook and bites him on the leg.

Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

Hazel is not the innocent small-town girl who's bewildered by the Big City. If anything, she is the manipulator and aggressor. That she and her doctor are one of a kind becomes clear when, hung over, she has misgivings about her behavior. “Why did you let me come to New York” asks Hazel, “You were always as honest as your look!” Hazel and Downer can make themselves look innocent, demonstrating that appearances are deceptive and not to be trusted. Cook, by contrast, looks suave and shrewd, but he is more innocent than Hazel.
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Nothing Sacred (1937) [Re-UP]

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