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...that he is on their trail, and by a charming young lady (Madeleine Carroll) whom he picks up in the course of a wild night on the Scottish moors, Hannay plunges through a series of hairbreadth escapes and escapades, some of them horrifying, some of them extraordinarily funny. The funniest, possibly, is the one in which, mistaken at a political meeting for the speaker of the evening, he makes himself the hero of the occasion by an address composed of foolish generalities. The most exciting is that which brings the story back to its starting point in the music hall...
...funniest parts of The Politician are consequently the quotations from the politicians themselves: A speech on the protective tariff, delivered by onetime (1925-31) Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, in which the tariff is pictured as touching hillsides, causing the waters of commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement...
Goin' to Town (Paramount). She Done Him Wrong, the first picture in which Mae West was starred, was her funniest. I'm No Angel made the most money, $3,000,000. The cleanest was Belle of the Nineties, at the height of last summer's Legion of Decency Campaign. Goin' to Town is the only one which deals with the contemporary scene but, aside from this detail, it is distinguished mainly by the strictness with which it adheres to the basic West formula which, as the constant element in all four of her productions...
Anything Goes. The funniest man (Victor Moore) and woman (Ethel Merman) on the musicomedy stage, with Cole Porter tunes...
Warner Brothers' musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" featuring the infectious Dick Powell, and supported by a host of Hollywood's funniest comedians, is a worthy successor to the 1933 and 1934 hits of the same name. It is light, airy, and debonair. Judging from the response of the audience, the picture took...