After Office Hours (1935)
This is a small little-known movie (it's only 72 minutes long) but it's got some fast dialog, especially by beautiful Constance Bennett and handsome Clark Gable. It's part romantic- comedy and part murder mystery and another excuse to see Bennett in those satiny, backless gowns and firs.
Jim Branch (Gable) is the editor of a metropolitan newspaper. Sharon Norwood (Bennett) is a rich society dame that used her pull with the publisher to get into the newspaper business. Jim fires Sharon until he finds out that she is old chums with a sleazy lawyer, Tommy Bannister (Harvey Stephens) that Jim has been wanting to get something on for some time. Jim has been trying to expose Banister of having an affair with a rich married woman, Julia Patterson (Katharine Alexander).
Jim has been playing every trick in the book to get Sharon's influence to get close to this story, including charming her mother, (Billie Burke) asking Sharon to marry him and taking her out to places where he can catch Patterson and Bannister together, to the disgust of Sharon. Jim is also falling for Sharon.
Then Julia Patterson turns up dead and her jealous, drunken, husband, Henry King Patterson (Hale Hamilton) is the prime suspect. This causes Jim to dog Bannister even harder.
This is a small little-known movie (it's only 72 minutes long) but it's got some fast dialog, especially by beautiful Constance Bennett and handsome Clark Gable. It's part romantic- comedy and part murder mystery and another excuse to see Bennett in those satiny, backless gowns and firs.
Jim Branch (Gable) is the editor of a metropolitan newspaper. Sharon Norwood (Bennett) is a rich society dame that used her pull with the publisher to get into the newspaper business. Jim fires Sharon until he finds out that she is old chums with a sleazy lawyer, Tommy Bannister (Harvey Stephens) that Jim has been wanting to get something on for some time. Jim has been trying to expose Banister of having an affair with a rich married woman, Julia Patterson (Katharine Alexander).
Jim has been playing every trick in the book to get Sharon's influence to get close to this story, including charming her mother, (Billie Burke) asking Sharon to marry him and taking her out to places where he can catch Patterson and Bannister together, to the disgust of Sharon. Jim is also falling for Sharon.
Then Julia Patterson turns up dead and her jealous, drunken, husband, Henry King Patterson (Hale Hamilton) is the prime suspect. This causes Jim to dog Bannister even harder.