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Nine Lives Are Not Enough

1941, Movie, NR, 63 mins

Nine Lives Are Not Enough: Review

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This hard-driven crime reporter film features Reagan in a made-to-order role. He's the reporter with a nose for news, always brash and ready for action, who writes an expose on gangster Welden. When Welden sues for libel and wins, Reagan is demoted to police-reporting by da Silva, who plays the perfect caricature of a hard-bitten city editor. Gleason and Brophy are a pair of bumbling officers who help Reagan prove himself as they discover the body of a millionaire whom, it is believed, committed suicide. Reagan writes a story that this is really a murder, though the coroner still believes otherwise. That's enough for da Silva, who fires Reagan. But, with the help of Perry, the murdered man's daughter, Reagan proves Welden to be the murderer. In the end Perry falls for Reagan and buys the newspaper, making her new guy the city editor and relegating da Silva to the lonely-hearts column. This is classic B filmmaking with every stereotype and cliche firmly in place. Reagan is his usual gung-ho self, carried along by direction that nearly breaks the land-speed record for story movement. leave a comment
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