Word: blanchar
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...first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little too hammy in his actions to suit an American audience, but his overacting detracts little from the film...
Ruth Chatterton proves once again that her career should have ended with the advent of the talkies and that her figure ceased to be alluring some fifteen years ago. As for Pierre Blanchar, he is an unconvincing Napoleon to begin with. A habit of throwing extra r's into every word he utters does not serve to make him any more prepossessing...
Marie Bell, Raimu, Fernandel, Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each...