Word: angelically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Centering attention on the relationship of his characters and avoiding any heavy-handed anti-war ravings, Director Sidney Franklin has produced an interesting and absorbing albeit somewhat overly sentimental version of "The Dark Angel". The theme is familiar; two boys and a girl are brought up together and with the coming of age both boys develop a thoroughgoing love for the girl. They are both fine fellows but Allan (Frederic March) has a bit more dash to him and from the start he has held Kitty's (Merie Oberon) undivided affection Gerald (Herbert Marshall), the other chap takes the blow...
...Dark Angel (Samuel Goldwyn) is a literate and tastefully arranged version of the celebrated sob-cinema in which Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman committed assault & battery on the emotions of the U. S. public in 1925. It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor and profit which includes such classics as the life-preserver sequence in Cavalcade, the dance of the coffee rolls in The Gold Rush, the heroine's suicide in Anna Karenina...
Every day a slim, grey agent of the Recording Angel scans all the newspapers which reach his Philadelphia office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide. Between times Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania statistician, writes to health officials and registrars of principal U. S. cities, requesting every iota of news about suicides. In this fashion he accumulates one of the most reliable records on earth concerning that army of unhappy souls who would dissipate their troubles in death...
...there," he mused undecidedly. Less squeamish, the newshawks put their ears to the door, listened hopefully. Then the door opened and everybody gaped. Out slid thin, hollow-cheeked Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, followed by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., followed by Amon Carter, Democratic "angel," publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
...groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty little widow from California, "instantly answered her prayer? Was this grocer's clerk an angel in disguise...