Is My Face Red?

If its 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 politicos murder, the next time Posters name appears in print may be in the obituaries. Ricardo Cortez portrays Poster in a snappy pre-Code tale thats 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 Posters 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 Selznicks King Kong.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 25 Juni, 2012