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HELD as firmly as Mary Pickford in the affection of those who remember the silent movies Richard Barthelmess, Trinity 17. Like Pickford Barthelmess was one of the first artists to co-directly out of a peculiar art sponsored by former furriers and glove salesmen. Like her he has remained in the imaginations of those who applauded the screen's first crudities and naive, simplicity that often had a power of its own. Manly, but not robust heroism and splendid, sad faced patience through adversity won Richard Barthelmess his place...
Whatever the critics thought made no difference to the general public. It swept into the gallery in droves, gaped at slick prettified likenesses of Will Rogers, William Randolph Hearst, Richard Barthelmess, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Aloysius Farley, lingered longest over lush, sleek-hipped nudes in the yellow marble lobby. Five years ago Artist Christy got a thousand or so dollars for a portrait. Today he charges his sitters...
...other, "Four Hours to Kill," Richard Barthelmess is given top billing but is no more important than a dozen other actors, among them Joe Morrisson, Helen Mack, and Roscoe Karns. There are a tleast five plots, all good, cleverly interwoven and suspended until the final dramatic climax. The last twenty minutes of the picture are dynamite. Your Honor, you really ought to see it. It's a pity it's only one more...
...between pictures a year ago and in which he reduced the Grand Hotel formula to its lowest terms by having most of the important action take place in a telephone booth. The booth, in the lounge of a Manhattan theatre, becomes a convenient place for an escaped murderer (Richard Barthelmess) to hide while waiting to shoot the man responsible for his capture...
...filing clerk; the detective whose daughter is about to graduate from high school; the murderer's antagonist married to the usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell Leisen's direction and Richard Barthelmess' understanding of the role of a vengeful, stubbornly romantic thug, make Four Hours To Kill a first-rate specimen of its school...