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Several Italian-anti-Fascists (kept back from the Rex at Nice by vigilant French police who feared a bomb plot): "Abbasso Fascismo! Down with Fascism! Abbasso Mussolini...
...excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version is the same...
People who like their Laurel and Hardy in small doses will find this one a little too long-winded. Five reels of even the best slapstick is more than enough. The dialogue and plot are inconsequential, and when the clowning slows up there is nothing left to the picture...
...plot enters in the person of a beauteous native girl (Maria Alba) who has run away from marriage on a nearby island. She likes Fairbanks, gets into bed with him. He extricates himself, calls her "cute." Meanwhile Fairbanks' returning friends stop at the nearby island that Maria Alba has left, hire the natives to fake a capture and the beginning of a stake-burning, to be interrupted by the friends. The natives come, find the escaped girl, carry out the stake-burning in earnest. But as Fairbanks' homemade shorts get hot, the monkey turns on the radio, the savages flee...
...engaged in a deadly combat with an illicit attraction for a third corner,--all within the predominantly maternal bosom of la Dietrich. The theme is not new, but, with such a supporting cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good art. Clearcut motivation is a prime essential...