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...emotional depths build up the play considerably and march carries out his part to perfection, although it seems as though the real Browning was not as blustering as the play would have him. Charles Laughton, as Elizabeth's domineering papa, and, incidentally, the villain of this interesting-because-true plot, succeeds in making one hate him thoroughly because of his superb handling of a part calling for alternate restraint and outbursts of temper...
...about the lady spy whose espionage and counter espionage is complicated by affairs of the heart. "Stamboul Quest," concerning the exploits of Myrna Loy as a German secret service agent, bears too striking resemblance to the well-known story of Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage as the self-confident, blustering...
...story starts slowly. The reader is more than halfway through before he realizes he is entangled in a plot. Fernanda Milbank gushes with the women while attracting an admiring group of their men. Casting about recklessly, she gets a strike from Jack Crawford, reduces him to her terms. The two plan an elopement. Jack postpones the fateful day, leaves for the city on business...
Candles in the Storm, despite its bloody climax, is a quiet tale of people who go to a summer colony to work. Its value does not depend upon its plot which holds its fragments together, but upon occasional flashes of insight into character...
...this mood, tall, gangling Governor Black went back to his beloved Atlanta, back to his $25,000 job, to his rambling house on a five-acre plot on fashionable Peachtree Street, to his place as the city's favorite after-dinner speaker. There with solemn face he will tell innumerable stories, never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy...