Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s FEATURE FILMS
Description: HOWARD HAWKS DIRECTED. CARY GRANT, ROSALIND RUSSELL, RALPH BELLAMY, GENE LOCKHART, HELEN MACK, PORTER HALL, ERNEST TRUEX, CLIFF EDWARDS, CLARENCE KOLB, ROSCOE KARNS, FRANK JENKS, REGIS TOOMEY, ABNER BIBERMAN, FRANK ORTH, JOHN QUALEN, ALMA KRUGER, BILLY GILBERT, PAT WEST, EDWIN MAXWELL, IRVING BACON, EARL DWIRE, RALPH DUNN, PAT FLATHERTY, EDMUND COBB, WADE BOTELER, MARIAN MARTIN. REMAKE OF FRONT PAGE. GRANT AS A SCHEMING NEWSPAPER EDITOR AND, IN A SWITCH, THE REPORTER, ENACTED BY A SAVVY RUSSELL. SEX & ROMANCE. GRANT LEARNS THAT NOT ONLY IS RUSSELL LEAVING HIS PAPER BUT SHE INTENDS TO MARRY AGAIN, HAVING ONCE BEEN MARRIED TO THE MANIACAL GRANT. RUSSELL IS TIRED OF HECTIC PACE AND DEADLINE GRIND AND IS OPTING FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE OF HOME, CHILDREN AND A HUSBAND WITH A PREDICTABLE JOB. THE INTENDED IS BELLAMY AT HIS STUFFY BEST, WHEN RADICAL & ACCIDENTAL KILLER QUALEN ESCAPES HIS CELL AND HIDES IN THE NEWSROOM OF THE JAIL (INSIDE A ROLLTOP DESK). GRANT USES THE INCIDENT TO ENTICE RUSSELL BACK TO WORK. SHE IS TO WRITE THE SCOOP OF THE BREAK, BUT GRANT'S DEEPER MOTIVE IS TO KEEP RUSSELL NEAR HIM SO HE CAN SOMEHOW WOO HER BACK. AT ONE POINT GRANT DRIVES RUSSELL NEAR CRAZY WITH HIS NON-STOP ZANY BANTER, CHASING HER CLOCKWISE, ABOUT THE NEWSROOM, ALL THE WHILE UNLEASHING A STREAM OF NEAR-HYSTERICAL BABBLE. BUT RUSSELL, WHO MOMENTARILY ABANDONS BELLAMY, IS TEMPEST-TOSSED BETWEEN FEMININE WANTS & THE NEWSHOUND IN HER BLOOD. BRUCE TREATES ME LIKE A WOMAN. THE PRESSURE REDUCES HER TO TEARS WHICH GENUINELY SHOCK GRANT. BUT HE WANTS HER BOTH AS WIFE AND REPORTER AND HE SOMEHOW MANAGES TO KEEP BOTH, ALTHOUGH GRANT'S TACTICS ARE NOTHING LESS THAN THE ACTS OF A LUNATIC. QUALEN, THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER FELON, IS FINALLY CAUGHT, HIS TROLLOP GIRLFRIEND MACK SURVIVES HER FALL FROM THE NEWSROOM (HURTLING HERSELF DOWNWARD TO PROVE HER LOVE FOR QUALEN TO THE SNEERING, SNIDE NEWSMEN) AND BELLAMY IS SENT PACKING WHILE GRANT GETS RUSSELL AND ALSO EXPOSES CROOKED SHERIFF LOCKHART AND POLITICAL CRONIES FOR ANOTHER SCOOP. THUG WORKING FOR GRANT DEFENDS HIS GIRLFRIEND. WHIRLWIND SPEED. HOWARD HAWKS DIRECTS. PEOPLE SEEM TO BE TALKING AT ONCE. CROOKED MAYOR PROCESS SERVER. FRANTIC. URGENCY OF THE WORLD OF FAST-BREAKING NEWS. MADCAP COMEDY. CIGARETTE PUFFING FEMALE
