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...plot is manifold. Its principal current centers about the life and emotions of a sensitive, but in the main, ordinary man, with the life of a sample -- an ineffectual sample -- of humanity. Subsidiary to the development of this idea are three minor threads: a choral rendition of the epic of the Argonauts, obviously designed to emphasize the ultimate continuity of the chief functions of life: a train of satirically treated episodes of everyday life, and the intermittent presentation of personifications of those influences which have played a major part in forming the character of the hero. This...
...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...
...White (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White...
...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...
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...