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...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...
...which Mr. Rupert Hughes would say, as he did in his introduction to "Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies...
Monroe Owsley, who has been a cinema cad so often that his last name sounds like a pun, tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted...