Scandal Sheet *** (1931, George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 11,912

‘Editor’s wife caught in love nest raid’.

‘Drunk with the power of his ruthless press he blasted hopes and blighted homes… till fate stamped out his only spark of love.’

Director John Cromwell’s 1931 Paramount Pictures black and white film Scandal Sheet [The Dark Page] is written by Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin, and stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook and Regis Toomey.

George Bancroft plays the stop-at-nothing scandal sheet newspaper editor Mark Flint, who reports the lowdown on Noel Adams (Clive Brook), the banker lover of his wife Edith (Kay Francis) in his newspaper. When Flint tells the newspaper’s owner Franklin that he would be willing to publish a photograph hurtful to a colleague, Franklin shows him a picture of his wife and Adams together, enraging Flint.

Attractive playing by a good cast gives extra class to this striking, if far fetched little yarn, adroitly handled by expert director Cromwell.

Scandal Sheet is based on Oliver H P Garrett’s original story.

The cast are George Bancroft as Mark Flint, Kay Francis as Edith Flint, Clive Brook as Noel Adams, Regis Toomey as Regan, Lucien Littlefield as Charles McCloskey, Gilbert Emery as Franklin, Harry Beresford as Egbert Bertram Arnold, Mary Foy as Mrs. Wilson, Jackie Searl as Little Wilson Boy, Fred Kelsey as Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy, William Arnold, Irving Bacon, Vince Barnett, Louise Beavers, Davison Clark, Monte Collins, Adrienne D’Ambricourt, Robert Dudley, Perry Ivins, Broderick O’Farrell, Leslie Palmer Robert Parrish, Victor Potel, Jack Richardson, Syd Saylor, Nick Stuart, and Frederick Sullivan.

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