अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.A rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.A rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
- पुरस्कार
- कुल 1 जीत
- Larry Hayes
- (काटे गए सीन)
- Arthur--Office Boy
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Cop
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Blanco's Bodyguard
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Henchman in Office of 'Number One'
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Breck's Tailor
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Guard in Office of 'Number One'
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Casino Patron
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Threatening Phone Caller
- (वॉइस)
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Casino Patron
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
- Henchman in Hayes' House
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
The plot has been covered in other reviews, so I'll keep my review short.
The pluses: Fay looks great, Clark Gable is good, and the story is solid and interesting.
The minuses: Richard Barthelmess is fine, but being from the south, he shouldn't have even tried the accent.
Overall a fine film and definitely worth a viewing.
The positives first: the camerawork is especially impressive: it's fluid, dynamic and visually very interesting. That positive however highlights the negative. Ernest Haller's cinematography looks anachronistic by which I mean it's what you'd expect from a classy picture from the 1930s yet weirdly looks out of place in a picture which feels more like something from the late 1920s. The acting style and dictation is what you find in those early talkies. Compared with other pictures from 1931, say PUBLIC ENEMY or APPLAUSE, the narrative is painfully slow and the characters are as believable as Mickey Mouse. (Except for Gable of course.)
Richard Barthelmess' sensitive and thoughtful personality is occasionally perfect for a handful of roles but definitely not in this. That he could morph into a tough crime-busting reporter is utterly unconvincing. When tempted by the lure of mobster moolah, the struggle with his conscious lasts no more than about five seconds: Gable: You're a goody two shoes but would you like to join us and become filthy rich?
Barthelmess: No, I hate corruption.... but then again... oh ok then, where do I sign?
Terrible writing.
Also miscast is Regis Toomey. What film does he think he's in? He tries much too hard to offset Barthelmess' humourless cold persona by being, what passed for amusing in his own mind. And Fay Wray - as always she's that simpering cardboard cutout she always is. Why she was so popular is anyone's guess.
So despite three miscast leads, painfully slow and unemotional direction and an unrealistic script, the story and authentic feel of the age is just engrossing enough to hold your attention. If you want to bathe in the sumptuous atmosphere of 1930 and taste the grime of the era, you might just about be able to overlook this film's many shortcomings and enjoy it as a movie, not just as a museum curio.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Static but entertaining gangster picture has a wet-nosed reporter (Richard Barthelmess) from the South going to the big city to become a star but he soon learns that nothing is easy. After busting a gambling operation and getting nothing out of it, the reporter decides to partner up with a racketeer (Clark Gable) but soon the reporter gets too big for his current situation. This film is based on the life of Chicago Tribute reporter Jake Lingle who got involved with Al Capone and the rest is history. This film version is pretty good, although it's a bit slugish at time but this is due mostly to just how movies were during this early sound era. Barthelmess is hit and miss in his role. He's somewhat shaky during the nervous reporter segments but he settles down once he starts to enter the big shot period. Gable steals the show with his supporting performance and Fay Wray plays the love interest.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाThe film is loosely based on Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle, who was shot and killed the day before he was to meet with federal agents in connection with Al Capone's finances. There was public outrage at first over the killing of a reporter, but over the next few weeks it was discovered that Lingle was living way beyond his reporter's salary, and finally that he was on Capone's payroll.
- गूफ़When the front page of The Press is shown with the heading "Gang War Rages," one of the stories is entitled "Star Received with Great Ovation" and "received" is incorrectly spelled "recieved."
- भाव
Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler: This community is in bad shape indeed, when gangsters can perpetrate murder in broad daylight and get away with it. But there's one power in this town with sufficient courage to do what is right. And that power is The Press. The Press is going to break up the criminal gangs that infest this city and drive them out. The Press is going to expose every corrupt official preying on the community. The Press cannot be bought, intimidated or silenced. It's going to be war; a crusade, if you like. A crusade to destroy gang rule. From now on, you are more than reporters, you're crusaders and you're going to bear down on the underworld with all the power of The Press. We're going to make a fight of it. You can get your assignments from the City Editor.
- कनेक्शनReferenced in Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
- साउंडट्रैकFuneral March (Marche Funèbre)
(uncredited)
from "Sonata in Bb-, Op.35 No.2"
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Played after Lee's death
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- 1 घं 30 मि(90 min)
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