Girls can play
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Girls can play |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 59 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lambert Hillyer |
| script | Lambert Hillyer |
| production |
Irving Briskin , Ralph Cohn |
| camera | Lucien Ballard |
| cut | Byron Robinson |
| occupation | |
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Girls Can Play is an American crime film with Charles Quigley and Rita Hayworth from 1937. The story Miss Casey at Bat by Albert DeMond was used as a template .
action
Sports reporter Jimmy Jones longs to become a well-known crime journalist. While writing a story about a women's softball team , he discovers that the team's sponsor is a former gangster named Foy Harris who pretends to leave his criminal past behind. Jimmy is convinced, however, that Harris still has a mess. Because of this, he decides to take a closer look at this and the softball team. At the same time he takes the opportunity to keep an eye on the pretty player Ann Casey.
It turns out that Harris makes a living from adulterated liquor that he sells branded while outwardly running a small pharmacy and sponsoring the softball team. His girlfriend is Sue Collins, the leader of the team. She knows about his seedy deals, but she has no stake in them. When Harris' former gangster brother is released from prison, he is more than determined to get a piece of the pie. But Harris doesn't want to share, so he kills his former partner. After Sue learns about the murder, Harris plans to get rid of Sue as an accomplice. He first spreads the rumor that Sue was sick and wanted to take a trip to recover. Meanwhile, along with Ann, Jimmy finds out that the victim once worked with Harris. Jimmy just lacks clear evidence to hand his findings over to the police.
When Sue realizes that her life is in danger and that her boyfriend is not only a crook but also a dangerous killer, she decides to go to the police. But before she can comply, Harris poisons her softball glove, which ultimately causes her to collapse on the field and die. Ann and Jimmy are sure that Sue wanted to unpack and therefore had to give her life. Harris leads the police to believe that Sue had a weak heart, but an autopsy reveals that she was murdered. While the police are on their way to arrest Harris, Harris is already trying to make a run for it. Ann falls into his clutches. However, Jimmy manages to free her at the last moment. Then Harris is arrested, Jimmy becomes the new crime reporter and Ann his bride.
background
In 1937 the actress Julie Bishop was still known under the name Jacqueline Wells. However, the name change did not bring her stardom in contrast to Rita Hayworth , who appeared in her first films under her original name as Rita Cansino.
The camera work of the of Columbia Pictures produced B-movie was Lucien Ballard responsible, who later also known movies turned as The White Feather (1955), True Grit (1969), The Wild Bunch - They knew no law (1969) and Getaway (1972).
Reviews
"Cinematographer Lucien Ballard and director Lambert Hillyer lived up to their job by skillfully transferring Albert DeMond's original story Miss Casey at Bat to the screen with all their original power," said Gerald Peary in his book Rita Hayworth. Your films - your life . Weekly Variety concluded that Rita Hayworth, the friend of the corrupt pharmacist, had delivered "the best female portrayal in film." You therefore have "potential".
Web links
- Girls Can Play in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Girls Can Play at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald Peary: Rita Hayworth. Your films - your life . Heyne, Munich 1981, p. 55.
- ↑ “Rita Hayworth, as the minor of the crooked druggist, furnishes the smartest female portrait of the picture. She shows potentialities. " See Weekly Variety cit. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 84.