Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's hard to determine whether Nothing Sacred is a comedy or a drama, but if you decide to watch it all the way through, you'll find out it's a very strange comedy. Carole Lombard thinks she's dying, and when she finds out she's going to live at the exact moment reporter Fredric March appears to interview her, she decides to hide the truth to get attention and sympathy. So, since the main storyline involves someone pretending she's dying, it's a little bit odd. If you like Carole Lombard in her classic screwball comedies, and you don't think there's anything wrong with joking about death, you might find this movie funnier than I did. I like Carole much better in dramas, and the same goes for Freddie. Plus, it's a staple for screwball comedies to be extremely over-the-top and have one ridiculous antic after another, and in general, I prefer my movies to be a little more believable. But this is the only film in which you'll get to see Carole in Technicolor, and she herself really liked it, so if you're a fan, you can give it a whirl and see if you like it.

It's nice to see Frederic March and Carole Lombard in color, especially since this was the only color film she ever made. The premise is pretty silly, that so much would be made out of this 'dying' woman in the press and all over New York that shows would be stopped in her presence, she would be given the key to the city, etc., but it's a screwball comedy, so you just have to roll with it. The film had its moments, such as the treatment March faces in Vermont, with its taciturn adults, and a child who scampers out from behind a fence to bite him on the leg. However, it's pretty uneven in terms of humor, with a lot of run of the mill content, and several groaners. You'll also have to forgive some racial stereotypes, and March working Lombard up into a fever by boxing with her, and then knocking her out in one of the film's big scenes. Those bits are in keeping with the time period and not too ugly though, and it was nice to see Lombard give as good as she got. The production value for the film was high, as despite the weakness of the early technicolor process, it had a nice score, and many fantastic shots around New York.My favorite moment in the film is when March proposes to Lombard, despite thinking she has only a few weeks to live. In a film with a lot of screwball moments and one-liners, it had this little gem: "Oh Wally, I... I mustn't. Don't ask me. Please, just kiss me once more and let it go at that without ruining your life." "So what the devil is there better to life than we've got? A handful of perfect hours. That's all the luckiest ever get out of it. Just a handful of hours to save and remember. And then... I'll be there at the end, sailor. I'll be there waving you goodbye. It'll be the same as if you and I had lived forever. And you'll... you'll grow old in my heart."

Nothing Sacred is a screwball comedy which is rather light on the laughs. Carole Lombard is unsurprisingly the best thing the film has to offer. She has great comedic talent and genuine star power. But a performer is only as good as the material and unfortunately for Lombard, and for the viewer, the material here just isn't good enough. The movie is rather dull and, despite clocking in at a mere 77 minutes long, plodding. Lombard has her moments and injects a little life into the proceedings now and again. But by and large the film falls flat. It's not very interesting and, fatally for a comedy, not very funny.Lombard plays Hazel Flagg, a young Vermont woman who is dying of radium poisoning. Only she is not actually dying, she was misdiagnosed and is actually in perfectly fine health. She finds this out just before disgraced New York newspaperman Wally Cook tracks her down. Wally needs a big story to rescue his career after his last big story turned out to be a total fraud. Hazel Flagg, the courageous young woman bravely facing death. That will be his big story. Hazel isn't going to tell him she's not actually dying because, hey, he offered her a trip to New York! The whole city falls in love with brave, valiant Hazel Flagg. How long can this charade be kept up? Meanwhile, Hazel and Wally might be falling in love. This whole thing is a big mess which seems destined to unravel in spectacular fashion. It's a scenario which seems to have much comedic potential. But the laughs never come. Lombard has her charms and gives it a game effort. But she has so little to work with. And her co-stars don't provide much in the way of help. Fredric March displays very little personality in the role of Wally, the character comes across as very dry. Walter Connolly, playing Wally's boss, is a notable supporting player. Unfortunately he's notable really only for how annoying he is. Horribly grating overacting. Ultimately Nothing Sacred proves to be nothing special. This is a dud.

Nothing Sacred is another screwball comedy that fits the bill with the rest of the films during that time. Carole Lombard, after playing Irene Bullock in the ultra successful My Man Godfrey film a year earlier, once again is brilliant as she plays Hazel Flaggs. The film is able to present comedy through excellent execution of the dialogue and creative script writing from the filmmakers. the movie is very well directed by William Wellman and is truly successful in getting humor out of the eccentric characters and the overall feel in the film. The acting in the movie is superb with each joke or line being delivered perfectly in order to make the film funny and light-hearted. Nothing Sacred combined terrific script writing with tremendous acting to become a classic movie from a time when movies were forced to follow the strict guidelines of the 1934 censorship code.