Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lovely white goddess, Nina (played by Miss Booth) from her Tanganyikan homestead, in the teeth of the united tribes of Africa, is a bit unconvincing. Even the faultless characterization of Trader Horn by Harry Carey, played up by the juvenile lead, fails to bring power to a mediocre plot...
...unless you'd like to watch three stellar comedians in action. Two of them are Laurel and Hardy in a two-reeler. Under the best direction issuing these days from Hollywood and certainly the most intelligent sound synchronization, these two work with pitiful dialogue, antedeluvian gags and no plot...
...plot is woven about the figures of Thompson and Lyle, bitter political enemies, both of whom are trying to win political control of the city. As the last act closes, the victor is being congratulated by his opponent, and with a great prideful gesture he points to the national flags unfurled in his honor from every window. An irrepressible tear drops from his eye as his followers march to the ordered beat of machine gun fire over the dead bodies of the civil population. Unfortunately it is not yet known to which actor the role of victor has been assigned...
Bright Lights (First National). Made a year ago, Bright Lights was put on the shelf, presumably because too many other pictures just like it were being released. Unfortunately, seasoning has only helped to shelve it permanently. Its backstage plot, its industriously plugged songs, its imperfect sound-recording, its imperfect technicolor, already are relics of a dead past in picture making. Dorothy Mackaill is good looking and Frank Fay fairly funny. The plot-a show girl who is about to marry a millionaire when her past, in the person of Noah Beery, turns up and threatens her happiness-is good enough...
...love that she kidnaps a little girl. Heimatsklänge is a travelog showing pretty views of Rotenburg, Dinkelsbühl, Wertheim, and Fussen; it is synchronized with German folk music. Gretel und Liesel is a good comedy about two sisters, one neat & kindly, the other shrewish, with a plot to give the kindly one a dowry...