Is my face red? (1932)
Is my face red? (1932)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8800 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:05:00 | USA | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8800 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:05:00 | USA | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a showgirl. When Bill sees Tony stab Angelo Spinelli to death in a speak easy, he puts it front page of the Gazette…
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Robert Armstrong, Arline Judge, Zasu Pitts, Clarence Muse, Sidney Toler, Fletcher Norton, Ernie Adams, Lucy Beaumont, George Chandler, Cecil Cunningham, William B. Davidson, James Donlan, Billy Engle, Clarence Geldart, Maude Turner Gordon, Stuart Holmes, Rochelle Hudson, Anderson Lawler, Dave O'Brien, Harry Stubbs, William H. Tooker, Nella Walker
Is my face red? (1932)
Is my face red? (1932)
Ricardo Cortez plays a newspaper gossip columnist based on real-life journalist Walter Winchell (the film's title was in fact a Winchell catchphrase). Merrily dishing up innuendoes and destroying reputations, Cortez enjoys hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, including several disreputable citizens who back up their authority with bullets. He makes the error of announcing a gangland murder before the police have found the body, and in so doing is nearly rubbed out by the killers. An unregenerate louse for most of the film, Cortez finally mends his ways out of love for beautiful Helen Twelvetrees. "Is My Face Red?" is based on a play by Ben Markson and Allen Rivkin.
If it’s scandalous, sensational and hush-hush, New York columnist William Poster is the guy who lurks inside the speakeasies or slips beyond the backstage doors to find it. But after he breaks a story about an infamous politico’s murder, the next time Poster’s name appears in print may be in the obituaries. Ricardo Cortez portrays Poster in a snappy pre-Code tale that’s one of many films supervised by David O. Selznick at RKO in the early 1930s. “It is a shrewd, witty and scathing portrait, and Mr. Cortez plays the part to the hilt,” wrote critic Andre Sennwald in The New York Times. First-billed Helen Twelvetrees plays Poster’s forgiving Broadway sweetie. Other notables include future Charlie Chan-series star Sidney Toler as the murderous speakeasy proprietor and Robert Armstrong as a rival columnist. Less than a year later, Armstrong would journey to Skull Island in executive producer Selznick’s King Kong.
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Is my face red? (1932)
Is my face red? (1932)
