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Sep 02 '11
Pros: Funny script, good acting
Cons: Film print is very poor, Lombard has made better films
Summary: Carole Lombard + screwball comedy = a movie that I want to see. That is the simple formula that drew me to Nothing Sacred in the first place. I gave it a viewing on TCM recently, though I found I actually owned three different copies of it (since ...
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Oct 25 '10
Pros: Genuinely funny with a spiritual subtext.
Cons: Dark humor for 1937 and politically incorrect by today's standards.
Summary: "Morning Star" Newspaper reporter Wallace 'Wally' Cook (Fredric March) having been caught playing up a something for nothing scam, sets about redeeming himself with a human interest story about a DOOMED GIRL in Vermont. It turns out that ...
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Mar 16 '08
Pros: The leads try hard
Cons: with uninspired script
Summary: I was in the mood for some cynical Depression-era screwball comedy when I decided to watch the 1937 "Nothing Sacred." It starred one of the greatest screwball comediennes, Carole Lombard. I can only recall seeing her costar, two-time Oscar winner Fredric ...
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Dec 19 '99
Pros: screenplay, direction, cast
Cons: Lombard can be whiny, slapstick doesn't always work
Summary: "Nothing Sacred" is one of those long-ago films that remind you just how little has really changed over the years. Pro wrestling is as fake now as it was then, some reporters are still as willing to not let the truth interfere with a great...
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