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...sepia-toned film and handsome exteriors with which Metro has dressed this old Porter Emerson Browne western do not even partly submerge the musty dramatics of the script. Spitting such lines as "Find horses for ze women, and zese two men we take for ransom. Kill ze ozzers," Actor Beery plays his part as if he were kidding the quickie horse opera. His ability and experience partly inoculate Actor Barrymore against his ridiculous role, enable him to scatter a few flickers of reality. The others (Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) seem to walk through their parts in a mechanical...
Father Flanagan was so satisfied with the original Boys Town that he declined to read the script for Director Taurog's second try. That may have been unfortunate. For Men of Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...
...with consummate artistry. James Stewart acts out what is most certainly not James Stewart with considerably less success. And Cary Grant serves as an excellent back-drop for the two. Take the acting of these three, plus excellent support from the minor characters, a highly sophisticated (often too sophisticated) script, and excellent direction throughout, and you have "The Philadelphia Story...
Eight years ago, on their honeymoon, the Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...
...program has been semi-officially named "As Lampy Sees Them," and the first script--"but only the first," explained comedian-publisher Putnam--will be censored by the Dean's Office...