Sometimes a film line-up is easy. Today it was clear: Nothing Sacred, Anatomy of a Murder and The Last Picture Show.
We'd tried to watch the former a few days ago only to find it was a terrible print - Kino is the way to go, and that's still not perfect, but the best way to view W. Howard Greene's early and memorable Technicolor photography (not all bright and shiny but quite subdued and lovely).
Reporter Frederic March investigates and befriends radium poisoning victim Carole Lombard (who's delightful) and her ('horse') doctor Charles Winniger in satirical circumstances; Walter Connolly is the editor. Hattie McDaniel's appearance is one of her shortest - 'husband' Troy Brown Sr makes a good screen partner. Also with Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton, Max 'Maxie Slapsie' Rosenbloom and John Qualen. (Also didn't recognise Monte Woolley as one of the doctors.)
I particularly liked the kid in Warsaw, Vermont who runs out and bites March like a dog, and the 'fight' between the two leads in which March kicks her up the bum.
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