Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Pictures. Foreign Distribution Head H. A. Bandy told the delegates that Warner Brothers had doubled their European sales last year by "ghost speakers" i. e. foreign translations of talkie dialog on discs synchronized with films acted by U. S. casts. Most popular Warner pictures abroad last year: Disraeli, Gold Diggers of Broadway...
...badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns, donkeys, reflections in mirrors. Best shot: a high-springed, six-horse stage coach, loaded with mail pouches, coming...
...light, gracious playing gave that stilted musical comedy, The Lady in Ermine, a charm as a stage production which it has lost in cinema. Better direction might have made acceptable the earnest efforts of the large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical moment...
...half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities to each other and who were re united only after the wife had had a lively succession of affairs with men of various nationalities. Its interpretation of an elastic moral standard...
...story moves west to a shadowy, oldfashioned mansion on the farm lands, showing how marriage works out for the demimondaine and the rich boy whom she has married partly to get even with his brother, who tried to buy her off, and partly for the money. Goulding's dialog has shopworn stretches, but much of it is convincing and subtle. He has varied cinematic formulas enough to make The Devil's Holiday artistically effective, but not enough to impair its popular appeal. It remains a program picture, but a far better one than the average. Best shot: Nancy Carroll...