Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge for the insult, she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for pre-code era newspaper movies where everyone talks way too fast, maybe. But honestly, The Hell Cat is a frantic, messy little film that doesn't quite know what it wants to be. It’s for the folks who find comfort in the rapid-fire banter of 1934, and it will probably dr...
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Albert S. Rogell
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for pre-code era newspaper movies where everyone talks way too fast, maybe. But honestly, The Hell Cat is a frantic, messy little film that doesn't quite know what it wants to be. It’s for the folks who find comfort in the rapid-fire banter of 1934, and it will probably drive everyone else up the wall with its sheer lack of logic. The whole premise hinges on a grudge so thin you could read a newspaper through it. Geraldine Sloane is offended by a r..."
Eddy Chandler
Adele Buffington, Joel Sayre, Fred Niblo Jr.
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