Zachary Hicks is a Democratic candidate running for Governor. Kay Russell, his secretary, suggests that Hal Blake organize his election campaign. She is in love with Blake, but at the moment the man is in prison for not having kept up his ex-wife's alimony payments. Kay convinces the party leader to visit Blake in prison and the man so impresses everybody with his rhetorical skills that he convinces them to hire him and let him leave prison.
Biography
film director
Alfred E. Green
(Perris, 1889 - Hollywood, 1960), one of America's most prolific directors, entered the world of cinema in 1912 as an actor for Selig Polyscope Co. He later became assistant director for Colin Campbell and began making short, two-reel movies before making his first full-length film in 1917. During the golden age of silent films Green became one of the favorite directors of stars like Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid and Colleen Moore, and once talkies became popular he directed Bette Davis in her Oscar-winning role in Dangerous(1935) and also won critical and box office success with Al Jolson (1946). Over the course of his long career, which continued until the mid-1950s, above all in B-movies, Alfred E. Green made a name for himself as a craftsman of the cinematographic industry, passing unscathed from silent films to talkies and making movies which, like the famous film Baby Face(1933), have been rediscovered over time and are now considered some of the most audacious examples of Hollywood daring before the introduction of the self-censoring Code. After retiring from cinema in 1954 Green spent the last years of his life directing episodes of television series.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Green
Goddes(La
dea verde, 1930), Smart
Money (1931), The Dark Horse (1932), Union
Depot (Il
vagabondo e la ballerina, 1932), It's
Tough to Be Famous (I guai
della celebrità, 1932), Baby Face (1933),
Parachute Jumper (Uomini
nello spazio, 1933), Central Airport (Ala
errante, 1933), I
Loved a Woman (Amai una donna, 1933), Here's
to Romance (Canto
d'amore, 1935), The Goose and the Gander (Mariti
in pericolo,
1935), Dangerous (Paura d'amare,
1935), The Golden Arrow (Mogli
di lusso, 1936), Two in crowd (Due
nella folla, 1936), More
than a Secretary (Cercasi segretaria,
1936), The Duke of West
Point (I tre cadetti, 1938), King
of the Turf (La grande
corsa, 1939), South of Pago Pago (A
sud di Pago Pago, 1940), East
of River (Non mi ucciderete, 1940), Adventure
in Washington
(Avventura a Washington, 1941), Badlands of Dakota (Odio
di
sangue, 1941), Mr. Winkle Goes to War (Mister
Winkle va alla
guerra, 1944), A Thousand and One Nights (Notti
d'Oriente,
1945), The Jolson Story (Al Jolson, 1946), The
Fabulous Dorsey (L'America
dei Dorsey, 1947), Copacabana (id.,
1947), Four Faces West
(Le quattro facce del West, 1948), Invasion
USA (Invasione
Usa, 1952).