Directed by:
Nick GrindeCinematography:
Benjamin H. KlineCast:
Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris, Don Beddoe, Dorothy Comingore, Selmer Jackson, James Craig, Dick Curtis, Barbara Pepper, Robert Homans, Robert Sterling, James Millican, Walter Sande (more)Plots(1)
George Bancroft is the ruthless editor of a scandal oriented newspaper. He's oblivious to his lovely, "loving" wife's afternoon and evening sessions with a pickled puss lover (Kay Francis and Clive Brook). Kay asks Clive for 24 Hours (!) (they co-starred in a movie with that title in '31) to decide whether or not to run off to Europe with him. In a key scene one sees the revulsion for Bancroft's work ethic -- it has left her cold and unloving. Brook himself becomes a victim of Bancroft's paper and not to spoil the ending, I'll leave it there. It's an absorbing and well-performed drama. Francis registers well here, although the ending leaves us wondering whatever happened to her. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Otto Kruger
USA
Best movies:
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
High Noon (1952)
Saboteur (1942)
Ona Munson
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Red House (1947)
Edward Norris
USA
Best movies:
Boys Town (1938)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Queen Christina (1933)
Don Beddoe
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Caged (1950)
Dorothy Comingore
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Golden Boy (1939)
Selmer Jackson
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Sudden Fear (1952)
James Craig
USA
Best movies:
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Side Street (1950)
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Dick Curtis
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
King Kong (1933)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Barbara Pepper
USA
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Robert Homans
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Robert Sterling
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Johnny Eager (1941)
James Millican
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Walter Sande
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
William Wagner
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
John Dilson
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Helen Jerome Eddy
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Charles McAvoy
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Union Pacific (1939)
Hermine Sterler
German Empire
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Kings Row (1942)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Hans Schumm
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
John Tyrrell
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)