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Title: Sensationalistic journalists should see this one
Review: Frederic March is the hard-boiled newspaperman who'll do anything for a story. Carole Lombard is the Vermont small-town girl who'll do anything to get out of that small town. I'm sure the French prefer the Jerry Lewis remake of this, but Sacre Merde!, how could they! March is tough and tender here, and is especially excellent in the scenes in which he goes to that small Vermont town to get the exclusive interview with the girl he thinks is dying of radium poisoning. Watch for the little tyke who takes a bite out of March's tuchas. Lombard is Lombard, or in other words, she's glorious, silly, sexy, and I'd have loved to have seen her play Lucy Ricardo!! This is one that deserves to be remastered, before the early color becomes too murky.
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