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...central situation in Storm at Daybreak is so commonplace that only skillful treatment can make it plausible if not affecting. By the time Geza (Nils Asther) goes to the front you are ready to believe in his feeling for Irina (Kay Francis), at whose country house his troops have been quartered. The day when her robust old husband Dushan (Walter Huston) finds out is also the day when Geza is in danger of being court-martialed by the officer in command of the town. Irina goes to warn him to escape. Dushan follows to create a scene. The commanding officer...
...rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand-general; her marriage ceremony is delayed because the missionary has to rescue six children from an orphanage in besieged Chapei. During the rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses her in pajamas, holds a mass execution of prisoners-of-war under her bedroom window and makes advances toward her with pagan persistence...
...Katharine Cornell on the Manhattan stage) was the source of Letty Lynton. Whatever evil effect the picture may have on the behavior of its patrons will be increased by the fact that it'is a well-constructed, well-written melodrama which avoids the stencils of its type. Nils Asther is a blonde athlete from Stockholm Yet he wears fuzzy sideburns and speaks in such a way as to be the epitome of Latin menace. There is another immoral character m the story. Letty's mother (May Kobson), a misanthropic old lady who says: ''I have learned...
Married. Vivian Duncan, dancer (punched in the eye two weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 4); to Nils Asther, Swedish film star; in Reno...
Wrath of the Seas (German-British). Parts of this picture, made with the co-operation of the British and German governments, are fine newsreels of the Battle of Jutland. Other parts, made with the co-operation of Nils Asther, one Agnes Esterhazt and one Bernhard Goetzke, show a German naval commander drearily betrayed by his wife. The triangle is grafted on Jutland by connecting scenes with British extras made up as sailors but looking more like members of an amateur dramatic club in a benefit performance of Pinafore. Best shot: a British warship taking the sudden, hardly perceptible list which...