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...priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught red-handed. To save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent of brute force on the screen. Unlike...
Nevertheless, it is to Mr. Bickford's prospecting camp that Miss Twelve trees goes as housekeeper. Virtuously she makes out the limits of a housekeeper's duties with the aid of a revolver. One fine day, a long-lost lover comes ahydroplaning down the Orinoco, though it might be the "great, green, greasy Limpopo", for all we care. Interest grows as the young man precipitates a triangle and goes slinking around the house at night whispering to the girl. Later, the story outdoes itself by revealing that the hero isn't a hero after all, but a selfish meanie...
...contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates the Malay wilds to find and be reconciled with her husband (Charles Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled by a combination of circumstances which includes the eruption of a volcano whose streams of lava overflow the palace...
...under jut-jawed Charles G. Guth, has taken it in hand. The purity of Loft's candies has been strongly advertised, and the value of its $1 dinner. For this half it earned $219,000. The Waldorf System, Inc. (restaurant subsidiary) earned $604,000 compared with $592,000. Bickford's chain showed $372,000 against...
...does any good acting save the day; Charles Bickford convinces most, but the others are unable to rise above the disconnectedness of the plot. DeMille's directing produces a single strong feature--the final scene wherein the woman and her two lovers are trapped by a mine cave-in, thousands of feet below ground. Conrad Nagel, presented at last with an opportunity to act, responds, and the realism of the solution of the triangle slightly atones for the production as a whole...