Friday, August 2, 2013

THE PUBLIC MENACE (1935)

Not really all that good, overly-complicated story about a lowly newspaper report (George Murphy) who is tricked into marriage by a source (Jean Arthur) that ends up not having any information.  At the same time he's fired and can't afford a divorce.  More needlessly complicated things happen and soon these two are mixed up with a trigger happy gangster who has every cop in town hot on his tail.

Arthur does the best she can with this mess of a script, but it's honestly beyond repair.  I watched the entire thing, but I didn't care at all what happened cause you know no matter what stupid shit they get into everything is gonna work out just fine at the end and it does.  Weak humor, uneven pace, no chemistry between Arthur and Murphy, ridiculous story.  Skip it.