Word: dialogic
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...appropriate to the subject in hand. Often the transition from one crisis in Lincoln's career to another is so abrupt as to seem superficial. In part this is because of the limitations which program-time impose on the film's structure (it lasts only 100 minutes). The dialog by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet is less a factor in the picture's success than the masterly acting of Walter Huston in the title role. Sometimes in appearance he is a double for the familiar pictures of Lincoln?; sometimes, particularly in the earlier scenes as the backwoods lawyer without the beard...
...Dialog and action of Torch Song, refreshingly real, are reminiscent of the more serious works of Ring Lardner. The remarks of Actor Guy Kibbee, in the character of the dyspeptic undertaker supply salesman, should be long remembered. Sample: "All I've sold this week is two gallons of fluid and a grave lining. They bury them in their shirts around here...
...Ring (Terra-Ton). Max Schmeling made this picture while he was at home in Germany last year, several months before he won the world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent...
...Insull's onetime office boy, Composer Hamilton Forrest (TIME, Nov. 4). Like Verdi's La Traviata it is based on La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Unlike Verdi, Composer Forrest has employed jazz songs and themes, changed the story to bring it "up-to-date," employed dialog described as "stark in its reality...
...Social Lion (Paramount) No particular wit of dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic...