YOU LITTLE LOW-DOWN, DOUBLE-CROSSING FAKE... I love you!
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
It is an all time classic satire about media-generated fame, and fake news.
Director: William A. Wellman
Writers: Ben Hecht, James Street
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
Genre: Classics, Cult Film, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
0:00 The movie
2:45 A reporter named Wallace Cook tries to redeem himself by finding a big story about a girl named Hazel Flagg
10:38 A newspaperman visits a small town in search of Hazel Flagg, but encounters resistance from the locals.
16:52 Hazel is grateful to Enoch for saving her life and is offered a trip to New York by Wallace Cook.
21:20 Hazel Flagg is excited about her upcoming trip to New York, but worries about being used as a guinea pig for scientists and the fake wrestlers in town.
30:17 Hazel Flagg attends a show and reflects on her impending death.
38:52 Hazel plans to commit suicide to save herself and Wally from being exposed as frauds.
46:37 Hazel Flagg is believed to have committed suicide, but she is actually alive and hiding with Wallace Cook.
53:46 Oliver discovers that Hazel Flagg is a fraud and is not actually dying.
59:31 A man named Max is trying to get a sick girl back to the office as ordered, while dealing with his brother Moe and the boss Oliver Stone.
1:03:53 A woman fakes an illness to get out of going to jail, but her plan backfires when her boyfriend catches on.
1:09:09 Hazel Flagg fakes her illness and causes chaos in the town.
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