Exposed (1938 film)

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Exposed
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Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Screenplay by Charles Kaufman
Franklin Coen
Produced by Max Golden
Starring Glenda Farrell
Otto Kruger
Herbert Mundin
Cinematography Stanley Cortez
Edited byMaurice Wright
Music by Frank Skinner
Production
company
Release date
  • November 4, 1938 (1938-11-04)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$98,000 [1]

Exposed is a 1938 American drama film starring Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger and Herbert Mundin. The film was directed by Harold D. Schuster and is based on George R. Bilson's unpublished story "Candid Camera Girl". [2] [3] [4] It was released by Universal Pictures on November 4, 1938. A magazine photo-newswoman tried to make amends after exposing a lawyer and complication ensues when they fall in love.

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Plot

Click Stewart is a magazine photographer. She is told by her editor Steve Conway to find an exclusive story for the magazine. Click discovers that a former lawyer William Reardon who disappeared several years before is now living on the street. When the story and her photos are published, William Reardon sued the magazine. Click decides to meet with William and asks him to dismiss the lawsuit. William explains to Click that he quit his law practice after convicting an innocent man and sending him to the electric chair. William agrees to drop the lawsuit when Click offers to find the man's daughter and make restitution. Click learns that the man's daughter died in a car accident and persuades Betty Clarke, her actress roommate to pretend to be the man's daughter.

William meets Betty and drops his lawsuit, with the story making the newspaper headline. However, Mike Romero who works for a gangster named Tony Mitchell knows the truth and decides to blackmail Betty. Click plans to expose Tony Mitchell's protection racket. William who is now working as a lawyer again is helping Click. They plan to gather enough evidence of Mike's illegal activity to arrest him, with William and Click falling in love at the same time. When William learns that the man's real daughter is actually dead, he confronts Click who is talking to Tony Mitchell. William recognizes Tony as the person who framed the man he convicted. Later, William reconciles with Click and successfully prosecutes Tony and his man.

Cast

Otto Kruger and Glenda Farrell in Exposed (1938) Exposed (1938).jpg
Otto Kruger and Glenda Farrell in Exposed (1938)

Reception

Frank S.Nugent of The New York Times writes in his movie review: "Flash is not only the name of a picture magazine for which Glenda Farrell makes sensational photographs in a film called "Exposed," now at the Rialto. It is also the impossible space of time in which much of the important action coincidentally happens therein. For just with the innocent snapshot of a presumed Bowery bum Miss Farrell and her magazine set in motion a train of rapid-fire events which culminate in the round-up of a gang of racketeers, the regeneration of a demoralized lawyer and the tinkle of wedding bells. In short, "Exposed" is just another of those headlong reportorial melodramas which pause neither for breath, explanations nor a moment's cool reflection. It is not very true to Life." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 116. ISBN   9780813158891.
  2. ↑ "Exposed (1938)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Exposed". American Film Institute. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Exposed (1938)". All Movie. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ NUGENT, FRANK S. (November 21, 1938). "THE SCREEN; Notes More in Sorrow Than in Anger on the Little Tough Guys, Mr. Wong and Other Week-End Guests At the Rialto At the Globe At the Thalia". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
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