Love Is a Racket

1932
Unrated
1h 12m

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ann Dvorak in Love Is a Racket (1932)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.

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6,2/10

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Rôles principaux26

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Jimmy Russell

Ann Dvorak

Sally Condon

Frances Dee

Mary Wodehouse

Lee Tracy

Stanley Fiske

Lyle Talbot

Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw

Warren Hymer

Burney Olds

André Luguet

Max Boncour
(as Andre Luguet)

Cecil Cunningham

Aunt Hattie Donovan

Terrance Ray

Seeley

William Burress

Ollie
(scenes deleted)

George Raft

Sneaky
(scenes deleted)

George Beranger

Manager of Elizabeth Morgan's
(uncredited)

Gino Corrado

Sardi's Waiter
(uncredited)

George Ernest

Newsboy
(uncredited)

Harrison Greene

City Editor
(uncredited)

Eddie Kane

Sardi's Captain of Waiters
(uncredited)

John Larkin

Tod - Jimmy's Elevator Operator
(uncredited)

John Marston

George Curley
(uncredited)

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Commentaire en vedette

Decent

Love is a Racket (1932)

** (out of 4)

Boring melodrama about a gossip writer (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who falls in love with a struggling actress (Frances Dee) but she might be two timing him with a gangster (Lyle Talbot). William A. Wellman must have fallen asleep in the director's chair because there's not an ounce of energy in this film. Even by 1932 standards the film seems dated and rather routine. There's really not a single thing going for it as we sit there waiting for something to happen yet it never does. Fairbanks is very bland and boring in his role. At the end he gets a big speech about love, which comes off very silly. Frances Dee is good in her role but she doesn't have too much to do. Lee Tracy and Ann Dvorak co-star.

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Histoire

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Anecdotes
During his tenure with Warner Bros., William A. Wellman churned out a number of energetic, fast-paced entertainments which are often overlooked by admirers of his work but stand out from the assembly-line programmers they were intended to be. Among the highlights from this early period are Night Nurse (1931) with Barbara Stanwyck, the grim Pre-Code drama Safe in Hell (1931) and Love Is a Racket (1932) (1932) starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a newspaper columnist working the Broadway beat. The latter film is not only a fascinating time capsule of its era, with glimpses of then-popular New York City nightspots such as Sardi's, but also presents an unapologetic, cynical view of reporters who often resort to any means necessary to score a front-page story.

Wellman would go on to make several more distinctive B-pictures for Warner Bros. including the post-World War I social drama Heroes for Sale (1933) and the picaresque railroad adventure, Les Enfants de la crise (1933), but Love Is a Racket (1932) is a fun, unpretentious introduction to his Pre-Code films for the studio.

Citations
James 'Jimmy' Russell: [Giving her a gift of 'nylon' stockings] Here you are, ya' peroxide pirate.
Switchboard Operator: Oh, Mr. Russell... they're lovely! And extra length, too!
James 'Jimmy' Russell: Yeah... winter'll soon be here.