Scandal Street (1938 film)

Scandal Street
Scandal Street
Directed by	James P. Hogan
Written by	Bertram Millhauser; Eddie Welch
Produced by	Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
Starring	Lew Ayres; Louise Campbell; Roscoe Karns; Porter Hall; Edgar Kennedy; Elizabeth Patterson
Cinematography	Henry Sharp
Edited by	James Smith
Music by	John Leipold
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 11, 1938;
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Scandal Street is a 1938 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan and written by Bertram Millhauser and Eddie Welch. The film stars Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy and Elizabeth Patterson. The film was released on February 11, 1938, by Paramount Pictures.^[1]

Plot

Cast

Lew Ayres as Joe McKnight
Louise Campbell as Nora Langdon
Roscoe Karns as Austin Brown
Porter Hall as James Wilson
Edgar Kennedy as Daniel Webster Smith
Elizabeth Patterson as Ada Smith
Cecil Cunningham as Maybelle Murphy
Virginia Weidler as Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Lucien Littlefield as Robert Johnson
Jan Duggan as Vera Veazy
Laraine Day as Peg Smith
Lois Kent as Marilyn Smith
George Offerman Jr. as Jerome Murphy
Esther Howard as Birdie Brown
Carl Switzer as Bennie Nordskudder
Louise Beavers as Clairce

Reception

Frank Nugent of The New York Times said, "The fictional half of the Criterion's bill is filled by a well-wrought B-plus melodrama from Paramount, an entertaining tidbit called Scandal Street, which considers, for the 'steenth time, the cruelty, malice and stupidity of small-town gossips. Here it is Louise Campbell who suffers the tongue-lashing and the guilty-until-proved-innocent attitude of Peach-tree Lane's residents when the married Don Juan in the next-door house is found murdered. Fortunately, she has wee Virginia Weidler on her side, as well as right, and the murder outs conveniently. As small-town profiles go, this is as definitive as the next, with penetrating sidelights on the weekly bridge nights, the children's dancing school, amours and civic pride."^[2]

References

^ "Scandal Street (1938) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
^ Nugent, Frank S. (1938-02-05). "The Screen – The Government Documentary Film, 'The River,' Opens at the Criterion – New Double Bill at Central". New York Times. p. 19. Retrieved 2015-06-28.

External links

Scandal Street at IMDb

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[1] "Scandal Street (1938) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-06-28.

[2] Nugent, Frank S. (1938-02-05). "The Screen – The Government Documentary Film, 'The River,' Opens at the Criterion – New Double Bill at Central". New York Times. p. 19. Retrieved 2015-06-28.

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