Word: dialogic
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...right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog has a certain wit and the whole pro: duction is filled with pretty scenery, pretty clothes. Marion Davies enjoys herself in a role that did not take much thought. Best sequences: the children remolding their father along modern lines...
...detail of the naval warfare shown here will have a strong suspicion that Director John Ford has romanticized. All the action is highly theatrical: a jumble of spywork, gunfire, carousal, submarine heroism, with some brilliant photography of sea-scenes. The photography is all that recommends it, for the dialog is inept and the story of the Mystery Ship sent out as decoy for a German submarine and the beautiful German spy who loves a U. S. officer but sees him kill her brother in the course of duty, gets laughs in the wrong places. There is no one of note...
...piece of business or dialog often repeated...
Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk-play whose elements are a good deal more folk than play. Because Playwright Lynn Riggs (Roadside) is a poet rather than a dramatist, his pithy piece is chock full of fine, salty dialog, but the dramatic structure is very slim...
...eyes from the bottom when smiling, and deft Noel Coward, author and producer of the piece, it relates the adventures of a divorced couple who find themselves occupying adjoining suites and terraces at a French hotel on the first night of their separate new honeymoons. With the merriest of dialog they tenderly reunite, after quarreling with their respective new wife and husband...