Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed by the incompetence of his staff, a fat Hebrew whom he names Col. Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is rapid, trivial, dextrous and absurd. Good shot: Powell, rewarded with $100,000 for his synthetic rubber...
...When the script ? essentially a stenographic record of a Lubitsch idea ? is finished, he seldom sees it, for he knows it all by heart. In staff conferences, he is charmed to argue over details, pleased when a costumer asks advice about a button on the hero's coat. With his actors ? whom he has usually selected long before he casts them ? he expostulates one by one, a day for each, until they share to the last shade his reading of their parts. When the picture starts, he almost never changes anything...
...jowls and cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...
Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...
...possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave the theatre, you realize that you have been fooled, which is the purpose of such entertainments. Good shot: Fairbanks and his hobo companion (Guy Kibbee) walking along the track on which Joan Blondell's train for Salt Lake City is quickly disappearing...