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...wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt is a thick-skinned aviator who sells his services...
Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy...
...Beast of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Partly because of protests from the Hays organization, 1932 gangster pictures will show criminals as craven rather than heroic. Cinema police, like Walter Huston in this picture, will be clever and courageous instead of timid nincompoops. But it is unlikely that even these thoughtful improvements will instill respect for law & order into cinemaddicts so long as the underworld, however deplorable, is displayed as brilliantly efficient. In this picture, almost all the admirable members of the police department of an anonymous city are destroyed in their effort to capture one small nest of desperadoes...
Apparently Mr. Craven has only to open his mouth to make an audience laugh. Loudest whoops of first-week spectators arose from a gag that enjoyed wide circulation in 1924. Mr. Craven, complaining about his friend's liquor, remarks: "Prewar...
What war, Chinese?" And once, when he temporarily falls out with his crony, more cackles go up for another chestnut: "They shot the wrong McKinley." It is Mr. Craven's interest in a pretty face that saves the innocent victim from electrocution. He becomes enamored of the unfortunate young man's sister (Erin O'Brien-Moore), although he does not share her unflagging belief in her brother's innocence. Neither do McKinley nor the Governor until Mr. Craven stumbles on the one flaw in the murderer's plot. If you are smart you might find...