Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of Stand Up and Cheer, suggested by Will Rogers, concerns the efforts of a U. S. Secretary of Amusements (Warner Baxter) and his pretty assistant (Madge Evans) to improve the country's morale with government-supervised vaudeville acts. The picture aims to combine spontaneity and grandeur, succeeds in being an erratic and mildly entertaining musicomedy which makes the tedious mistake of harping on Depression...
...French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
...daughter, Helen Chandler out of difficulty before she is willing to recognize him. Hollywood, after showing us Barrymore in almost every role that it has hidden up its sleeve, seems at last to have cast him in a part that suits his dashing air perfectly. Not that the plot is anything new or that he wears the uniform of a Russian general to set off his profile. But the carefree, pleasantly daring and above all adventurous (by inference if not by actual portrayal) should capture the heart of any Barrymore devotes...
There is the uncomfortable meeting of father and daughter in the lawyer's office, there is the disowning of the father by the daughter, and there is the final reunion after he helps her out of trouble. No more than that is the plot. But that is enough to make Barrymore pleasant...
...cast weaves its way through the messy plot principally against a background of a Roumanian chateau, solidly built, attributable only to the architectural school which conceived Steuben's Rathskeller. Singing with irrelevant gestures, fullface always to the audience, the players in "The Moon Rises" are forced to be more aggressively charming than most musical comedy actors because every line given them, must, to survive, be punctuated with a sweeping gesture, or a flashing smile...