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The Public Menace is a 1935 American black-and-white romantic drama film starring Jean Arthur, George Murphy and Douglass Dumbrille. A newspaper reporter keeps losing and regaining his job due to a manicurist he is persuaded to marry.
The Public Menace: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay. Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Erle C. Kenton
- 1935-09-30
In The Public Menace (1935), Jean Arthur plays a cruise-ship manicurist who serves a clientele that includes gangsters: She's a hit with them because she's mildly flirtatious but hardly a pushover, and she is, by all appearances, discreet. But for reasons that aren't immediately - or, perhaps, ever - clear, she wants to get off that boat.
The Public Menace (1935) ** (out of 4) A rather bland comedy from Columbia has a Greek woman (Jean Arthur) meeting a reporter (George Murphy) on an ocean liner and asking him to marry her so that she can get off the boat.
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
- Erle C. Kenton
- Columbia Pictures
Egotistical reporter Red Foster is sent to cover the arrival of an ocean liner. On the press boat, Red meets another reporter from Detroit, who informs him that Public Enemy Number One, Tonelli, is under arrest aboard the ship.
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