AFS Essential Cinema: NOTHING SACRED November 4, 2008

Small town folks were usually depicted cinematically in the 30s as fish out of water when landing in New York City, but Hazel Flagg figures out a way to put one over on the big city slickers. Getting a quack diagnosis that she is dying from radium poisoning after painting too many watch dials, the eager young woman wins a free trip to the Big Apple where she is the proverbial toast of the town and object of a journalist’s fantasies.

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