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HERE'S FLASH CASEY (1938)
Label: Film Masters
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: PG
Duration: 55 Minutes 56 Seconds
Audio: B&W English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: B&W 1080p HD (1.37:1)
Director: Lynn Shores
Cast: Eric Linden, Boots Mallory
Recent college grad Flash (Eric Linden, Gone With The Wind) worked his way through college and dreams of running his own newspaper someday. However, he finds breaking into the newspaper business rather difficult. When he attempts to get hired on as a freelance journalist at the Glove Press the editor Mr. Blaine (Joseph Crehan, Union Pacific) ha little interest, that is until he later snaps a pic of the newspapers owner, Major Addison (Holmes Herbert, Jungle Jim), son embracing the scandalous Mitzi LaRue. The keep things quite he hired the kid on in exchange for the negative, and the kid is hired on as a newbie with a reduced rate. He works under establish photographer Gus Payton (Harry Harvey), who is all too happy to tale credit for the newbies photos, and get bonuses for his work. The plus side is that he making time with Kay Lanning (Boots Mallory, The Big Race), the newspaper's cute and sassy society gossip page journalist, they have a sweet meet-cute at the elevator and become good pals. However, when Flash snaps a pic of a secret celeb wedding during his free time and sells it to Major Addison's other new outlet, the pictorial Snap News magazine, run by Pop Lawrence (Howard Lang, Gorgo), he gets canned by Mr. Blaine. After that we get gangster named Rick who attempts to extort money from Pop with a doctored photo, and murder and mayhem ensue, with the plucky Kay kidnapped, leading to , a couple of car chases, and a stolen ambulance, and Flash and his photog pal Tom Wade (Cully Richards) going undercover as an ambulance driver to rescue her from the dastardly racketeer. At just 56 minutes it's pretty short in the tooth and flies by pretty quick, chock full of quick witted molls, snappy dialogue, and some slapstick shenanigans. This Poverty Row studio production from Grand National is directed by Lynn Shores (Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum) won't set the world on fire retroactively, but it's a fun, very lightweight, poverty row programmer and an interesting flick about a gut who like snapping pics and gets caught up in some racketeering intrigue.
Audio/Video: Here's Flash Casey (1938) arrives on region-free Blu-ray from Film Masters as part of their MOD Archive Collection. The black and white film is presented in 1080p HD in 1.33:1 fullscreen. The source looks pretty great, advertised as being newly restored from archival film elements. Grain looks natural and grayscale is solid throughout, there are a few fluctuations in density, some faint vertical lines, a couple of missing frames as well, but for a late-30s poverty row relic it looks pretty good to my eyes. Audio comes by way of English DTS-HD MA 2.0 dual-mono, it's a fairly clean sounding presentation, there are a couple of brief anomalies, but they were brief, and not too distracting.
There are no extras, just a static menu with the option for subtitles and chapter selection. The single-disc release arrives in a standard keepcase with a single-sided wrap featuring the original illustrate movie poster.
Special Features:
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