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...modern and urban equivalent for the now defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
President Terra hastened to ask President Vargas to forget any silly rumors he may have heard of an anti-Terra plot. President Vargas effusively assured his host that he knew the rumors to be ridiculous. However, the bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist...
...difficult situations in a manner both charming and graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience in a continual suspense which is climaxed by the dramatic ending of the picture...
...plot-walloper, Author Slesinger usually goes at the gist of the matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...
Assuming that the plot of Camillo will be more or less familiar to everyone, the French outline with charming delicacy the story of the little grisette who, coming to Paris with much beauty and no money, sets out upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks...