Nothing Sacred

El Biffo

Better-than-average mid-century Hollywood fodder, but I prefer Wellman's films before Hollywood cleaned him up to please the Hays Code. Night Nurse was Hollywood trash, too, but at least it was uncensored, and unsanitized. Beggars of Life was brilliant. The Hays Code even affected French films that wanted to play in America, and ultimately, Hollywood abandoned it in order to survive. A list of banned topics below...

Jason

Not quite pure asinine frivolity. How could it be? Ben Hecht wrote it. It is not the least bit difficult to imagine this script being worked out as something more than passingly serviceable. Wellman might even have been the man to do it. Why not? However, this is goddamn hard to sit through. Carole Lombard reaches a career low in terms of noxiousness. I can handle a bumpkin, but this I can barely handle. Barf.

Howard Fritzson

I think it has an amazing script and I love Oscar Levant's "Gershwinesque" score and the shots of Manhattan are lovely. The reactions of the actors are particularly funny and Walter Connelly gives one of his best dyspeptic performances.

Cláudio Martins da Silva Alves

Weirdly slow and arrhythmic for a 30s screwball comedy, especially one with such a delicious premise. Thankfully, Lombard is here to liven up the affair, fully committing to her character's antics, her mood swings and childlike hedonism. If nothing else, watching Lombard do her thing in vibrant color is reason enough to recommend this not so funny farce.

FISCHER

C'est fort gentillet, toujours sans génie, d'un humour bon enfant, quelquefois répétitif et au rythme bien poussif, fort étonnant venant du grand Wellman... www.cinefiches.com

christian.rodb

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Kim Avelar Marcelino da Silva

Damn... Wish I wasnt so much on my cell phone during this movie cuz the dialogue is great thanks t the great Ben Hecht who wrote great movies like Scarface (the original one), Notorious and Spellbound (for Hitchcock), Ride The Pink Horse, His Girl Friday and so so so many more... Thank God I wasnt on my phone for the big Man vs Woman fight at the end.

lostlevel

It was relatively amusing as far as outdated movies go and not that offensive either. At least this film has the alibi of being made in the 1930s, I'm not sure what excuse more recent problematic films have.