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...sparkling musical account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily absorbed by a gawking family from Kansas. A guttersnipe from the Left Bank (Miss Montgomery) stole his heart. Her Apache boyfriend stole his wallet. Ingenious winds and strings described the American's moods, half jaunty, half homesick. The orchestra revived him with a Charleston, got riotous when he decided to make a night...
...Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...
...Riffraff," Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy in the title role, is an expert melodrama of bombs, brains, brute stupidity, strike agitation, and escape from prison. The director makes use of every stock situation known to cinema, from the working girl sweetheart and the caveman boyfriend with neolithic brawn and paleolithic brains, to the sirens and flying bullets that scream after the escaped prisoner. But from beginning to end there is not one single cliche. In addition to this remarkable achievement, the picture tells a passionate love story without one word of love. Spencer Tracy, the tough...
...silly girl, a typical college "teaser," sneaks away from her Southern co-ed institution for a party with a would-be sophisticated boyfriend. He gets drunk, runs out of liquor, insists on going to a lonely country bootlegger's he knows about. Almost there, he wrecks his car and the two find themselves stranded at dusk at the bootlegger's, among five hard men, one hard woman. The boy gets drunk again, the girl is terrified but cannot get away. This typical cinema situation does not turn out like a cinema. For one horror-filled night the girl escapes...
...Majesty's Car. Lily Dornik (Miriam Hopkins) little suspected that when her journalist boyfriend took her out for a motor ride the vehicle would be one which was about to be delivered to her country's King. Nor did she understand why people suddenly became so nice to her, until the reporter broke the news: seeing her in His Majesty's car, everyone thought she was the royal mistress. Reluctantly Lily Dornik agrees to capitalize her position, rises to fame & fortune. Naturally no one says anything about her to the King. But one day, incognito, he drops...