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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight...
Atlantic (Elstree). Although Director E. A. Du Pont (who made Variety) directed this, it suffers from the flowery dialog and annoying deliberation peculiar to most British films. Like The Deluge, Journey's End and Submarine, it shows how a group of people behave when they are facing death. This time the setting is a trans-Atlantic liner which sinks after hitting an iceberg. If the producers had used some of the stories that have been current for two decades about the crash of the Titanic, or even if they had used the Titanic's passenger list...
...chief fault lay in what may be inaccurately called the drama. The story took hero (John Wayne) and heroine (Marguerite Churchill) through badly motivated antagonisms past conventionally villainous perils and into each other's arms at last. Their trip was sometimes complicated by high flown dialog and stimulated by snatches of good comedy...
...shadowgraph-and after a great deal of advice from Edna (Charlotte Winters), a well-meaning friend, do the inarticulate young couple reach a happy understanding. The shortcomings of Bad Girl are not attributable to poor stagecraft or bad acting, but to the triteness and insignificance of the characters, story, dialog. Assuming that all of God's creatures lead lives that are worth writing about, it is conceivable that Vina Delmar's unimportant boy and girl could be made fictional
...TIGER VON BERLIN?Good murder mystery, competently handled by an all-German cast, in all-German dialog (TIME, Sept...