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Ladies Crave Excitement
USA 1935
produced by Nat Levine for Mascot
directed by Nick Grinde
starring Norman Foster, Evalyn Knapp, Eric Linden, Esther Ralston, Purnell Pratt, Irene Franklin, Emma Dunn, Gilbert Emery, Russell Hicks, Christian Rub, Francis McDonald, Matt McHugh, Jason Robards sr, Syd Saylor, George Hayes (= Gabby Hayes), Stanley Blystone, Lynton Brent, Dick Elliott, Neal Dodd, Robert Frazer, Jack Gardner, Sam Harris, Eugene Jackson, Donald Kerr, Mary MacLaren, Frank Marlowe, Edward Peil sr, Herb Vigran, Max Wagner
story by John Rathmell, screenplay by Wellyn Totman, Scott Darling
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Wilma Howell (Evalyn Knapp) is a socialite who's grown bored with her
life, so she asks her father (Gilbert Emery) to give her a job at his
newsreel company ... but he bluntly refuses, thinking the girl is just not
fit for working. Somehow though, Wilma meets Don (Norman Foster),
cameraman for a rival newsreel company and her fiercest critic, and since
she pretends to be someone else, the two hit it off right away and start
filming a series of dramatisations of news events that take the audience
by storm - so much so that Wilma's father, who doesn't know about her new
job, tries to figure out what the competition is doing to keep ahead in
the game ... and soon enough, Bob (Eric Linden), Don's dissatisfied
sidekick and son of Don's newsreel company's boss (Purnell Pratt) spills
the beans in a state of drunkenness. Don though finds out that Wilma is
the daughter of Howell, blames her forgiving away his trade secrets and
breaks up with her ... until she is taken hostage by some prison escapees
and Don has to save her while Bob gets a chance to vindicate himself as
newsreel cameraman. Likeable if lightweight action film of the
daredevil reporter variety that might be a bit clichéd but features some
ok action scenes quite besides a likeable ensemble cast and is paced
swiftly enough to never get boring. So a classic it might not be, but
entertaining it is ...
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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