Another Broadway play that Paramount brought to the screen in 1929, "Gentlemen of the Press" marked the sensational movie debut of super-attractive Kay Francis.
In this one, Kay Francis makes the most of a secondary role as the love interest of Walter Huston.
A typical newspaper yarn, featuring jaundiced, callous, and drunken reporters, the realistic drama focused on the Huston character (he figures in almost every scene), but it is dull stuff compared to a similar and far more well-known yarn, "The Front Page" (which opened on Broadway just two weeks earlier — on 14 August 1928, to be precise).
Nonetheless, Kay Francis, who so expertly imparts double meanings to even the most innocuous lines, makes the VintageFilmBuff DVD worth its weight in gold, even though the DVD is often badly framed (at least in many of Huston's shots anyway).
P.S. Vintage Film Buff is no longer active, but as the film is now out of copyright, you should have no trouble finding a copy.
In this one, Kay Francis makes the most of a secondary role as the love interest of Walter Huston.
A typical newspaper yarn, featuring jaundiced, callous, and drunken reporters, the realistic drama focused on the Huston character (he figures in almost every scene), but it is dull stuff compared to a similar and far more well-known yarn, "The Front Page" (which opened on Broadway just two weeks earlier — on 14 August 1928, to be precise).
Nonetheless, Kay Francis, who so expertly imparts double meanings to even the most innocuous lines, makes the VintageFilmBuff DVD worth its weight in gold, even though the DVD is often badly framed (at least in many of Huston's shots anyway).
P.S. Vintage Film Buff is no longer active, but as the film is now out of copyright, you should have no trouble finding a copy.