Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Available for use in the second Tolerance Tour is the dialog prepared after the completion of the first last year. Excerpts...
...Alexander Markey) belongs to that class of films which theatre managers advertise with lobby displays of excelsior and old straw, to represent South Sea Island residences. The cast contains The Virgin Bride, Her Lover and Her Father, all performed by natives. There is a volcano in the background. The dialog is entirely unintelligible...
Less ingenious in plot, less eloquent in dialog than most previous Chanecdotes, this one has three qualities to recommend it: Warner Gland's undented black felt hat; a false face which deductive-minded cinemaddicts should include in their speculations; a good shot of the Paris sewers...
Extase was made in Prague in 1933. With almost no dialog, it tells the erotic story of a woman (Hedy Kiesler) who deserts her impotent husband, goes swimming naked, loses her clothes when her horse runs away, spends a night with the young man who catches the horse. The picture's title derives from the closeup scenes showing hero & heroine together in a cabin. Even French critics found these shots "extremely audacious" and Fritz Mandel, Austrian munitions maker and husband of Hedy Kiesler, was so outraged that he used all his might and money to have the film suppressed...
Author Smith's humor depends chiefly on situation but he has the reputation of writing wise-crackling dialog. Random samples: " 'Say, officer,' continued the voice, 'let's waive the dog for a moment.' 'Don't see what good that's going to do,' grumbled the sergeant. 'It certainly won't help the dog any to go waving him about...