Clear All Wires! (1933)
Clear All Wires! (1933)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7200kbps | 4.1Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:18:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7200kbps | 4.1Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:18:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Foreign correspondents clash over working methods and love.
Director : George W. Hill
Cast : Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason, Alan Edwards, Eugene Sigaloff, Ari Kutai, C. Henry Gordon, Lya Lys, John Bleifer, Lawrence Grant, Guy Usher, Mischa Auer, Rolfe Sedan, Akim Tamiroff
Lee Tracy, the actor who makes a delightful specialty of playing motormouthed manipulators and flimflammers (including Hildy Johnson in Broadway’s original The Front Page and slick publicity man “Space” Hanlon in Jean Harlow's Bombshell ), stars in the Pre-Code comedy Clear All Wires! He portrays Buckley Joyce Thomas, brash foreign correspondent of the Chicago Globe. Bounced from a Moscow assignment for “conduct unbecoming a gentleman,” Buckley and his right-hand man Lefty (James Gleason) set in motion a plot to get their jobs back by staging a high-level assassination attempt and scooping the world – a plan that spins wildly out of control. Working from their Broadway play, Bella and Samuel Spewack provide the movie adaptation. They would rework the play for composer Cole Porter’s stage hit Leave It to Me! Perhaps most significantly, they would reunite with Porter for the timeless Kiss Me, Kate.
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Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
~ Tony Fontana
Clear All Wires! (1933)
Clear All Wires! (1933)
Clear All Wires! (1933)
