Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...
...girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes the modern girl. These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children should be the result of love, not love the result of children." Convinced that it had amused, the Assembly announced that subsequent plays would be in the Lolly genre...
...force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting in dialog where it fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps the action get started. The gags, like Lloyd's lecture on the petunia in the fingerprint studio, are meaningless when separated from the context but uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three...
...Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...
Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot...