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...with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...
...witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple in his arms, tells her stupid father they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried...
...light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word...
Orchid Man Lager usually hunted alone with native bearers, sending his finds back to his Partner Henry Hurrell, now 78, by muleback, canoe and raft. Once a hostile Indian tribe led him into virgin orchid territory after he had cured a sick child with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager...
Pick Up (Paramount). Mary Richards (Sylvia Sidney) gets through with an unfair jail sentence, makes friends with a taxi-driver named Harry (George Raft), starts living with him. He takes up with a Society Girl. Mary's husband breaks out of jail, furious at Mary for being unfaithful, determined to kill her lover. Mary saves Harry's life by pretending to be reconciled with her husband. Then Harry saves Mary in court, when she is accused of having assisted her spouse's jailbreak. All this, cheaply written by Vina Delmar, adds up to another program picture distinguished...