Reno (1939 film)

Reno
Directed byJohn Farrow
Screenplay byJohn Twist
Story byEllis St. Joseph
Produced byRobert Sisk
StarringRichard Dix
Anita Louise
Gail Patrick
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Edited byHarry Marker
Music byRoy Webb
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 1, 1939 (1939-12-01)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Reno is a 1939 American drama film directed by John Farrow and starring Richard Dix, Gail Patrick and Anita Louise.[1]

Plot

After a woman gambling in his Reno casino loses money and sues him trying to get it back, Bill Shear suddenly recognizes her as his own daughter, Joanne, someone he has not seen since a long-ago divorce.

Shear remembers what brought him to Nevada in the first place. As a young attorney, then known as William Shayne, he represented silver miners. He met and married Jessie Gibbs and became a father, but when the silver went bust, leaving Reno on the brink of becoming a ghost town, it was he who created a new identity for Reno as a place where unhappily married individuals could get a quick, painless divorce.

Neglecting his own family due to his work, Bill ironically is left alone when Jessie obtains one of those easy divorces, taking their child and leaving him. He is also disbarred and must find another line of work, which is how he came to be in the casino business now. Joanne, moved by her father's story, abandons her lawsuit against him.

Cast

Production

The film was based on a story by Ellis St Joseph which RKO bought in December 1938. Robert Sisk was assigned to be the producer[2]

By May 1939 John Twist was writing the script and Richard Dix to star. It was Dix's first film under a new long-term contract with RKO, where the actor had some of his greatest successes, notably Cimarron.[3]

John Farrow was assigned to direct in July 1939.[4] Filming started August 1939.[5]

Reception

Frank Nugent, for The New York Times said: "you can't believe that anything so preposterously unmotivated could ever have taken place even in Reno, which is the title of the picture, incidentally. From beginning to end it is compounded of the sheerest twaddle, and the word "sheerest," in this case, may be taken to mean superlatively transparent."[6]

References

  1. ^ Richard Jewell and Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p. 134
  2. ^ Churchill, Douglas Wadleigh (Dec 20, 1938). "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ Churchill, Douglas Wadleigh (May 11, 1939). "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times. ProQuest 103018499.
  4. ^ Schallert, E. (Jul 13, 1939). "DRAMA". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 165035083.
  5. ^ Churchill, Douglas Wadleigh (15 August 1939). "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD; BRITISH DIRECTOR HERE". The New York Times. Special To the New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  6. ^ Nugent, Frank S. (21 December 1939). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Max Fleischer's Picture-Book Cartoon of 'Gulliver's Travels' Opens at the Paramount--'Reno' Seen at Criterion and 'The Golden Key' at the Cameo". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  • Reno at IMDb
  • Reno at the TCM Movie Database
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  • Reno at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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