mark.waltz Review of Borrowed Hero

Borrowed Hero (1941)

Mixture of political drama and smart newspaper comedy grabs you and grips your attention.

[6/10 · 30 November 2018]

This intelligently written Monogram programmer is smarter than the average B and up there with the best of the A's with similar themes. Government corruption and organized crime investigating turns a top notch journalist (Alan Baxter) into a media star, and puts him on the local stages when he is asked to head up special prosecution for those breaking the law. He has an I'm using foil in employer Florence Rice who not only feeds him information but makes cryptic phone calls to him in disguise to send him out in the field to retrieve important information. Constance Worth is an excellent femme fatale whose involvement in both political corruption and organized crime rings has many public figures scared that they may be exposed for their part in what is being investigated. The always lovable Mary Gordon steals every scene that she is in as Baxter and Rice's landlady. I could see this having been made as a series of comedies with social issues dealt with in a different way as Baxter and Rice share a very good chemistry and the script of this film is quite above-average than the normal Monogram programmer.