''Scandal Street'' is a 1938 American

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directed by James P. Hogan and written by Bertram Millhauser and Eddie Welch. The film stars

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, Louise Campbell,

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and Elizabeth Patterson. The film was released on February 11, 1938, by Paramount Pictures.

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'' said, "The fictional half of the Criterion's bill is filled by a well-wrought B-plus melodrama from Paramount, an entertaining tidbit called ''Scandal Street'', which considers, for the 'steenth time, the cruelty, malice and stupidity of small-town gossips. Here it is Louise Campbell who suffers the tongue-lashing and the guilty-until-proved-innocent attitude of Peach-tree Lane's residents when the married Don Juan in the next-door house is found murdered. Fortunately, she has wee Virginia Weidler on her side, as well as right, and the murder outs conveniently. As small-town profiles go, this is as definitive as the next, with penetrating sidelights on the weekly bridge nights, the children's dancing school, amours and civic pride."

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* 1938 films 1930s English-language films Paramount Pictures films American drama films 1938 drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by James Patrick Hogan 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub