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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
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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. The film was released on January 7, 1938, by RKO Pictures.
Crashing Hollywood Poster An ex-convict and a screenwriter write a screenplay based on the bank robbery that got the criminal in trouble with the law. After the film's release, the police follow the trail of clues in the movie that leads them to the gang responsible.
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 mildly entertaining blend of screwball comedy and gangster film. Aspiring screenwriter Michael Winslow (Lee Tracy) stumbles into a friendship with ex-con Herman Tibbets (Paul Guilfoyle) and with the help of Herman’s wife, Goldie (Lee Patrick), writes a screenplay based on a bank robbery in which Herman took place.
