Word: thrillers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very moment that a war picture, or a western thriller, or a Spanish romance becomes popular, the movie producers rise as one man and imitate such success until the idea has become completely used up. The second in the series usually is not as creditable as the first, the third is terrible, and from then on we stop counting. "Behind the Front" happens to be the second in the line of realistic war pictures, and as such it is reasonably competent. If only we hadn't seen "The Big Parade" first, this review might assume a lighter and happier tone...
...first appeared half a decade ago. Its characters seem to have stepped right out of the pigeonholes on the director's desk. And the direction itself, besides being plainly ignorant of the newer arts of deftness and subtlety in the cinema, is not even true to the good old thriller tradition which after all did produce some good entertainment...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...
There is nothing startlingly original in "The Cat and the Canary." Its originality lies chiefly in the fact that not a single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...
...take up a discussion of the plot of the show. "Laugh It Off", written by J. C. Murphy '25 and W. S. Martin '26, is a two-act musical comedy. The first act, the scene of which is laid in a deserted country house at Beverly Farms, is a thriller guaranteed to come up to the standards of Broadway's finest productions. The second act features a costume ball at a nearby country club, thus affording ample opportunity for the display of the dramatic genius of Mr. Silvers and his charges in all of the "Seven Lively Arts...