Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that he is in love with his wife, Colette (Jeannette MacDonald), but tantalized by her best friend. Mitzi (Genevieve Tobin). Most of the dialog, instead of being poorly translated German as is usually the case in Lubitsch opera, is in easy, loosely rhymed couplets. Sample...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one should make such a mistake. The pleasure of seeing this Arsene Lupin consists entirely in seeing both Barrymore brothers at the same time. Theatre-goers enjoyed this privilege in 1919, when both were cabined in the narrow dungeons of The Jest, but they are not likely to enjoy it again...
...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
Lovers Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), although it was written as a cinema, not as a stage play, by famed Playwright Frederick Lonsdale, has most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family...
...placed in peonage by villainous masters. With one of these voodooistic overlords a family of white planters comes in contact, thus giving Zombie its motivation. For the most part wretchedly acted (including the work of Miss Pauline Starke, deep-voiced onetime film actress) and beset with deplorably written dialog, Zombie has at least four authentic shudders for your spine...