Word: caddishness
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...ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last week's premiere at Manhattan...
...feeling is shaken when her caddish friend's wife meets and claims him as the liner docks. Persistent, he appears later in Paris where a Frenchman pushes him through a window. In the ensuing turmoil, Suitor Morgan turns up, no sooner, no later than the audience expects...
...meets his best friend's (Conway Tearle's) fiancee (Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences by recovering the gun from an umbrella stand at midnight...
...scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected of the crime and the only witness who might help her, an ex-soldier, is so paralyzed by the spectacle of murder that he can neither write nor speak. This catalog of misfortunes is further expanded by interruptions...
...regards adultery as a fine art, not a plaything for children. So he asks him to practice his wiles on the Baroness and if successful, to wire him "cherries are ripe." If feminine demureness prove the winner, the telegram is to read "cherries are sour." Sandor sets about his caddish work, and with La Roquian aplomb, reduces seduction to an absurdity. It is significant that the climax of the plot is reached only as the final curtain falls, presumably either to keep the audience in their seats, or to protect the actors at the end with the curtain...