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Playwright of The Breadwinner is William Somerset Maugham (Rain, The Letter, The Circle). Unlike the best of his works, this comedy is simply a bag of parlor tricks performed by dialog...
Karamazov (Tobis). German dialog will make this picture half unintelligible to an average U. S. audience. It will not be totally unintelligible because half of the story is told in action which will be clear to anyone...
Angels, The Front Page), that he had bought screen rights to the book for $15,000 and intended to produce it immediately - with the original cast, if they would consent to appear. Producer Hughes hired Leo McCarey to direct the picture, Ben Hecht to work on the dialog. When he came to the problem of selecting a cast, however, Hollywood's indignation interfered with his plans. Only three cinemactors are under exclusive con tract to Producer Hughes - Billie Dove (sometimes reported engaged to him) ; Pat O'Brien (Front Page) ; Jean Harlow (Hell's Angels). Forced to hire...
...Producer Samuel Goldwyn proceeded simply. He bought the screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given an illusion of depth by the perspectives of its setting...
...falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does not permit affection to interfere with professional obligations. The picture, lacking the thickly gruesome atmosphere contrived by Author Sax Rohmer, is further handicapped by poor dialog and ineffective acting; the blood that is spilled in it seems scarcely as thick as water. Ablest members of the cast are the orientals-Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa, who has not made a picture in Hollywood since 1921. After disbanding the company he had formed to make pictures featuring himself, Cinemactor...