Word: fault
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Defense Chronic Fault...
...contains none of the elements commonly accepted as having picture appeal. A dowager, a charwoman, a financier, a drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur that his theme demanded, but his effort was courageous, moving, sincere, and so is Warner's reflection of it. Best shot: Leslie Howard, as a neurotic, supersensitive inebriate, beginning...
...that we have done away with the story, there is but one major fault remaining, namely that the second half of the film is a sharp anticlimax to the zeppelin scenes portrayed in the first half. It is too bad, because after you have had your breath taken away by shots of a zeppelin drifting through clouds, and an almost melodramatic series of events leading up to its destruction, then you have to sit through some air pictures which, in different order would be much more effective than they...
...port, some vintage brandy. The fact that critics could question the obvious reality of a living man and a skilful actor as against an imagined character proves the vitality of the portrait; certainly no one who goes to the picture without some preconceived ideas about Heythorp could find any fault with Arliss' old-masterly performance. A competent cast gives him all the support he needs, which is not much. Best shot: the death scene after Heythorp's puritanical legitimate daughter has taken the bottle of brandy away from him and put it just out of reach...
...only reparation that we who have awakened Hungary from powerlessness and restored order to the country can make is to place Karl's son Otto on the throne which belongs to him at the earliest possible moment. Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning...