Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being a great picture only because its story is not a big enough framework for its implications and because the actors have their own way too much. You feel that it would be better if its workmanship were not so finicky. Half of it is silent and half in dialog. The silent part is the most effective. Best shot: Miss Wood teaching her family to sing Christmas carols...
...Blithe dialog by Rachel Crothers about divorce and remarriage (TIME, MARCH...
...novelist whose wife is unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned...
...those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door...
Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward...