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...script concerning "The Stebbins Boys," two elderly bachelors of Bucksport, Maine. In the same general rustic atmosphere as Seth Parker the Stebbins Boys manage their hotel and general store, act as a court of appeals for the village on all problems from political to amatory. A typical recent Stebbins dialog had to do with their beards. Suspected of being robbers at sea, they were told to take off their "disguises" by a Lieutenant McGee of the Coast Guard...
...Menjou in 1927. Amusing in both versions, its comedy is steadily improving with repetition. Hungarian Director Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...
...Seconds (First National) is a turgid cinemelodrama of the moral bankrupting and liquidation of an honorable sucker (Edward G. Robinson). It opens with Robinson assuming the attitude in an electric chair and it is based on the unscientific theory that a man's life unreels itself, complete with dialog, in the two seconds between the first twitch of the electricity and unconsciousness. Recapitulating, Robinson sees himself as a happy steelworker on a girder with his friend (Preston Foster). Soon, still happy, he is refusing to get involved with a pretty, scheming dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne). She fills him full...
Director Clair keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced...
...Paul, because he was unable to collect a $15 judgment from David Gilman, theatre manager, Kenneth Spencer, ventriloquist, marched across the street from the theatre, made his dummies engage in a dialog anent the integrity of Manager Gilman. Chirped Dummy Spencer : "Say, Gilman, when are you going...