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Crashing Hollywood is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and written by Paul Yawitz and Gladys Atwater. The film stars Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle, Lee Patrick and Bradley Page.
Crashing Hollywood: Directed by Lew Landers. With Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle, Lee Patrick. An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be better than starting a duck farm.
- (327)
- Comedy, Crime
- Lew Landers
- 1938-01-07
Crashing Hollywood (1938) is an amusing B programmer made by RKO -- sixty-one minutes in length, funny, and entertaining, especially to those who enjoy seeing Hollywood depicted on screen. Fast-talking Lee Tracy plays an aspiring screenwriter on his way to Los Angeles by train.
- Lew Landers
- 1 min
- Lee Tracy
The film, "The Trail of the Hawk", starring matinée idol Thomas Darcy, is a smash hit, but soon a real gangster whom Tibbets had known in the slammer (also called 'The Hawk') comes poking around the studio.
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Crashing Hollywood, released in 1938 by RKO Radio Pictures, starring Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle, Lee Patrick, and Richard Lane, and directed by Lew Landers.
Crashing Hollywood is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and written by Paul Yawitz and Gladys Atwater. The film stars Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle, Lee Patrick and Bradley Page.
After the film's release, the police follow the trail of clues in the movie that leads them to the gang responsible. Other gangsters fear a rash of such movies, based on true live crimes, and head for Hollywood to stop them in their tracks.
