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...Maitre des Forges," by Georges Ohnet, is an unblushingly melodramatic tale of love between noblesse and bourgeoisie, and the dire effects of pride. The heaviness of the plot is compensated for, however, by skillful acting, pleasing repartee for those who can understand it, and a delightful delineation of a very comical nouveau-riche...
...plot can boast the originality of having the heroine marry the right man, and wish that she had married the wrong, but most of the time it struggles along with some time-unhonored devices that can't help shooting wide of their marks. The ending is particularly unfortunate. The heroine rushes on to the scene of the duel between her newly-valued husband and her worthless duke of a lover, manages to be the only one hit, and is reconciled with her worthy spouse, in the arms of him and the face of death. There follows an imaginative scene whose...
...York Police Department for drunkenness. When it turns out that the young lady (June Travis) responsible for his predicament, daughter of a hard-boiled colonel of Marines, is in love with him, Phil enlists under her father but any chance that this will mean a premature solution of the plot's romantic elements is speedily destroyed by the fact that Colonel Denbrough's eagerness to have his daughter marry a marine is equaled only by her determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself...
...hour or so. As so many directors before him, producer Selznick has relied on a panorama of Morrocco and its outlying districts to sustain an old story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee...
...Adventures in Manhattan" will please individuals who enjoy predicting the climax of a mystery thriller when the story is only partially unfolded. As a movie which in parts is both uncommonly good and uncommonly bad, it contains enough comedy sequences, to sustain a plot which is highly improbable at best. The new edition of the March of Time suspends the propaganda and presents an interesting portrayal of the Mormen Church and the modern doctors' fight against cancer...