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...Sunshine Susie" boasts four capable leading actors, a not-too-elaborate plot that alternates from the sentimental to the ludicrously funny, excellent photography, and amusing sound effects. Renate Muller, as Susie, comes to Vienna looking for a job. She gets it, and eventually lands the Herr Director Arvay (Owen Nares) by some clever angling. But the comedy which runs through the entire film is the best feature of the show: Jack Hulbert does magnificently as Hasel, the doorman who, on Wednesday nights, leads the musical society at Schultz's beer garden; Herr Klapper, played by Morris Harvey, is particularly good...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one should make such a mistake. The pleasure of seeing this Arsene Lupin consists entirely in seeing both Barrymore brothers at the same time. Theatre-goers enjoyed this privilege in 1919, when both were cabined in the narrow dungeons of The Jest, but they are not likely to enjoy it again...
...Louis Calhern), the man in whose villainous talons lie the police of his city, the District Attorney, the State's political leader and the well-meaning Governor himself. Through his influence over these public agents and agencies Louis Corotto gets a boy out of jail, arranges a diabolical plot to make it appear that the boy has killed a minor vice merchant, and pushes the whole scheme within ten minutes of an electrocution. Mr. Corotto took all this trouble because he found out that his sulky mistress (Marguerite Churchill) was the boy's best girl...
...becomes enamored of the unfortunate young man's sister (Erin O'Brien-Moore), although he does not share her unflagging belief in her brother's innocence. Neither do McKinley nor the Governor until Mr. Craven stumbles on the one flaw in the murderer's plot. If you are smart you might find the clue in this refreshingly upside-down mystery during the crap game...
...decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...