Word: tolerating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Chan in Reno (Twentieth Century-Fox). A beautiful divorcee gets more than she bargained for, and Charlie Chan II (Sidney Toler) adds another tour to Twentieth Century-Fox's private Baedeker of Crime. He gets the culprit, but there seems to be more chin than Chan in the process...
Archibald Franklin Toler, Mississippi manager: "I hope it doesn't work...
...calls on her just as her oldtime lover is attempting to force her to begin blackmail. Of the two shootings which follow, William performs one in obvious self-defense. After his quiet departure, the job looks like murder and suicide to all but one policeman. A burly flatfoot (Sidney Toler), whom William had caused to be demoted, has his suspicions. But William's power is such that the policeman is thwarted and presently jailed...
...Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...
...Davies hid his other talents to an appalling degree. Robert Montgomery, of happy "Private Lives" fame is choked with hardly a witty speech and Jimmy Durante displays himself so rarely that one wonders of his contract expired before the shots were all taken, Zazu Pitts, as Gertie and Sidney Toler, as Zazu's husband are likewise exasperatingly withheld from the public gaze. It does not, however, fellow that the follies of the director should prevent the tired student from seeing "Bloudie of the Follies" with that free ticket the night before an hour exam...