Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a hewo." The picture wavers between light comedy and farce, William Powell straining toward the first, Kay Francis relaxing in the second. The jewel thief's pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler...
...bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns...
Miss Pinkerton is handicapped against its current competitors by containing no monsters, lunatics or apes. Its blood-curdling qualities, those of a puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes...
...passionate Holstein was the inspiration of Comic Artist John Held Jr. Whether Durham's bull would mate with Held's Holstein and produce a family of bullock Durhams no one knew last week...
When Reporter Klein worked for the Chicago Tribune his wife nicknamed him "Banjo-eyes" because his round eyes would frequently bug with astonishment like those of Moon ("Banjo-Eyes'') Mullins, hard-boiled Tribune comic strip character...