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...room-mate was a "little upset" last year at the prospect of being so intimate with the heastie, but this year's neighbors seem to take it in good part although the plot may thicken if Barnard's enterprising snake-fancier his wish to add an eight-feet pine snake and a bos-constrictor to his little family...
...Diane realizes Field's dependence upon her and returns to marry him. Her life with Field only serves to sharpen her realization of her love for Brady and after a tremendous struggle within herself she is finally saved by the generous defection of Field from the scene. This hackneyed plot is easily counterbalanced by the attractiveness of Miss Crawford and Mr. Gable's genial masculinity. The lines are good and the photography excellent in spots. For all except the most incorrigible high-brows this is bound to provide an entertaining hour...
Like those two films, Man of Aran has only a rudimentary plot and no professional actors. Relying on superb photography, a strapping fishwife named Maggie Dirrane (who acted as Flaherty's housemaid between scenes), a handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark...
...matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl...
...rest of the U. S. the Pennsylvania Dutch are material for funny-dialect anecdotes, but Author Williamson has skilfully fitted them into his melodramatic formula. In his story, a neat blend of hexerei, psittacosis and the primal appetites, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect throws into ironic relief an increasingly sinister plot. Herman Bauer, good farmer and good husband, coveted his neighbor's land. But if Neighbor Erdman had not come down with parrot fever, which looked like hexerei, if Herman had not found his mother's little hexing book, he might not have gone on to covet Erdman...