Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...
...employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William Randolph Hearst, and that his precipitate withdrawal was due to connivance with Publisher Howard, that the latter would transfer to Hearst the morning and Sunday Worlds, with their A. P. franchise. Said Publisher Howard: "His statement is the silliest imaginable. . . . It's a damned...
...dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed the settings), but it is an honorable Victorian relic. Silliest sequences: the end in which Ann Harding, about to go blind, goes home for a last look at her child before walking over a cliff...
...huge bat, flits in and out of the windows of Carfax Abbey, close to which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film. Silliest sound: Helen Chandler's feeble soprano chirrup uttered repeatedly as an indication of superhuman fear...
...until the final sequences. Helen Twelvetrees shoots an old sweetheart because he has transferred his affections to her daughter. After that the action settles into routine melodrama. Her career began when she eloped with a member of a wealthy family whose infidelities induce her to plunge recklessly into dissipation. Silliest shot: reporters who remain young after a long interval although the heroine has aged considerably...