Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romantic Night (United Artists). This is Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, revised and softened, its crinkling wit ironed into conventional film dialog, its satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such...
...supposed son and a pretty English girl, and when, with his screen wife, he is giving a portrait of domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth. No, sir. You see, in the U. S. when somebody appears before us in person, we give him the benefit...
Bitter at her best, Dorothy Parker can also be funny. You Were Perfectly Fine is a dialog between a man with a hangover and a girl who tells him what he did last night. Each revelation bends him a little further. The Sexes, also a dialog, pictures the love-life of a "sheik," a flapper. The Mantle of Whistler is a dialog between a girl and a man, just introduced, both of whom have a reputation for wisecracking to keep up. Nothing but a succession of thin-worn comebacks; it gives the impression of being itself a wisecrack about wisecracking...
...history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also, to see the picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest air spectacle ever projected. They had seen this spectacle woven through a war story of tragedy and cowardice. Despite the vivid dialog of Joseph Moncure (The Wild Party) March who wrote swear words for the actors in defiance of cinema custom, the story seemed inexpert. It told of two British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army secrets...
...begun her love-making from behind a store counter. True to the Navy conforms to the Bow formula: a love-affair, a misunderstanding, a reunion. The formula depends for its success on quick sequences and energetic physical activity; usually makes fair entertainment; but True to the Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays opposite her, is better suited in drawing room dramas. Real sailors will writhe with rage at his interpretation of a gob. Best shot: marriage episode...