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...except that this time the boy is a poor but happy sidewalk photographer, and he has a couple of poor but happy friends. These poor but happy friends are the best thing in the picture, and it is they who save it from being slow and second-rate. Akim Tamiroff is a Russian waiting for his citizenship papers, and Lee Tracy is a legless beggar who seems to enjoy pushing himself around underfoot on a little roller-skate wagon. Mary Martin and Fred MacMurray are perfectly adequate in their roles, which demand neither a minimum nor a maximum of acting...
...Cristo line she foils him in every respect. This fellow Cristo (Louis Hayward) is less convincing in his portrayal of virility than is Alice Faye in the role of Virtue Rewarded. The one slightly redeeming feature of the picture is Gurko's right-hand man, a strange mixture of Akim Tamiroff and the master of Mike's Club. Though half the time it's hard to tell whether he's trying to look silly or insidious, he nevertheless stands out brightly against the rest of the cast merely by virtue of a perfectly unconscious imitation of Billy Minsky...
...bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart...
...Great McGinty (Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Muriel Angelus; TIME...
Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff deserve honorary memberships in Tammany Hall for their superb performances. Preston Sturgis, author and director, ranks with Judge Seabury as a tiger-killer. But perhaps it would be better to say that while the good judge did the actual killing, Mr. Sturgis has written a magnificent epitaph...