Word: cad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodrama at the Fenway, is fairly successful. The plot, which involves a clever jewelry theft, may be old, but it works, to the complete mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with verve and dash...
...baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers that her lover is a cad. An earnest coatroom attendant, who has got mixed up with one of the girl ushers, steals Miss Chase's diamond pin to pay for an abortion while his devoted fiancee, aware of his predicament, is needlessly surrendering to her employer to get the money...
...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...
Considerably less evanescent than the play by Samuel N. Behrman in which, performing as Sigrift, Critic Alexander Woollcott scored a sedentary success, Brief Moment emerges in the cinema as a bright investigation of small problems, slick, chipper and reasonably entertaining. Most inevitable shot: Owsley, inveterate cad of the films, sneering at Abby across his cocktail glass...
...love. When Markie, clever bounder Cecilia had already seen through, laid siege to her. Emmeline surrendered unconditionally. By the time Cecilia discovered what was going on, the harm was done. Markie, who knew better than to marry anybody, had broken Emmeline's heart by acting like the honest cad he was. If Emmeline had been less defenseless, less trusting, she might have got over it: but she was in the Ophelia tradition and took Ophelia...