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The Mad Miss Manton

1938, Movie, NR, 65 mins

The Mad Miss Manton: Review

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Melsa Manton (Stanwyck) is hardly mad, in the insane sense of the word. Rather, she is a madcap heiress, given to outrageousness, who finds a corpse on a street late one night. However, the corpse vanishes before the cops arrive. Like so many Nancy Drews, Miss Manton and a crew of her feather-headed debutante pals become amateur detectives and search for the villain. Peter Ames (Fonda), a newspaperman, suspects that the whole thing is just one more of the mad Miss Manton's hoaxes, but later he joins the cadre of cuties to help solve the case. A screwball comedy with a whodunit twist, THE MAD MISS MANTON benefits from a witty script but is hindered by its resemblance to too many films with similar story lines. Henry Fonda apparently hated the script and didn't want to take the assignment, but he was shoehorned in by Walter Wanger, who had Fonda's personal services contract. Thus, when Wanger made the deal, Fonda dutifully arrived to do his job and was pro enough to turn in a good performance. leave a comment
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