Word: brianing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone is good in Hepburn's new picture except the renowned Katherine and even she becomes more entertaining when dressed as a boy. The honors of the production belong to Cary Grant who gives a fine performances as a cockney carnival man, accent and mannerisms as well as clothes. Brian Aherne becomes a little soupy in his courting, as artists may be expected to do, but he does really good work throughout the picture...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...
Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith...
Good Men and True (by Brian Marlow & Frank Merlin; Mr. Merlin, producer) intrudes into a jury room after a judge has handed over a murder case to five women and seven men, the defendant's peers. Jury duty usually has a few moments of genuine excitement but many more of tedium. So has Good Men and True...
...intermittently lively and entertaining period piece is due partly to Howard Hawks's skillful direction, partly to a fine characterization of a frowsy wharf-rat by Producer Goldwyn's latest discovery. Walter Brennan. Good shot: Edward G. Robinson incredulously examining the corpse of his henchman (Brian Dunlevy), hanged by the Vigilantes...