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...rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with the wreck and the rescue are so interesting technically that they compensate to a large extent for the bromidic situations and embarrassingly obvious dialog which lay the ground for them. Noteworthy is the photographic exposition of the inventions for the safety of undersea craft-the operation of a specially marked buoy which, released from the deck and carrying a line, enables a wrecked submarine to denote to rescue craft her position on the sea floor...
...every detail of plot, staging and dialog the two pictures are almost identical. Artist Heideneck (Anton Walbrook), needing a subject for a magazine cover, picks up the wife of a Viennese doctor at a masquerade, paints her in nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle...
...Mexican Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio, almost lifesize, in color. ¶A "composograph" (frankly doctored picture) of Gypsy Rose Lee. strip teaser, in conversation with Mrs. Harrison Williams, "world's best-dressed woman." Sample imaginary dialog: Williams: "I never wear the same thing twice. And you?" Lee: "I never put off tomorrow what I can put off today...
Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...
Made several years ago in Europe Slalom has German dialog in the rare moments when anyone speaks. Most of it is pixie pantomime, easily understood. The two ski teachers dominate the picture are on the screen almost all the time doing everything on skis from Christies to Geländesprünge with extraordinary skill Walter Riml is a ski teacher in the Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty...