Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MISS AUSTRIA WINS 6 to 1 STOP MISS AUSTRIA DARK CHESTNUT HAIR GREYISH BLUE EYES OUT STANDING FEATURE IS THE UNSURPASSED ARISTOCRACY OF HER MIEN STOP HER BEAUTY BEST DESCRIBED AS ETHEREAL...
...something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss Poulton standing wearily in front of the window out of which she is going to jump before she struggles, with dismayed and frantic awkwardness, to open...
...water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also the British Empire. The last...
...told him to get out and join the ranks he belched in her pretty face. So she put on his tin hat and got in his place and won a battle for the regiment by shooting a German machine gunner. Actress Eleanor Boardman and Director Henry King do the best they can with their material. Best shot: tanks going into action...
...disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows so that air can freshen up the suspense, but Hamilton gets boring and the technical detail is much too sloppy for a murder story. Best shot: the murdered man sitting in a chair usually reserved for a stage dummy...