Word: dialogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bride 68 (Tobis). With dialog part English and part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over...
Montana Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Equipped with dull and naively vulgar dialog Montana Moon is a retake, admirably photographed, of the sort of picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading...
Broadway Shadows is a painfully stupid play which Playwright Willard Earl Simmons has completely inundated with the contents of the old hokum bucket. Surrounded by ineptitudes of property, dialog and direction, the hero is purported to be a Social Registerite. He has left home to live in a $100-a-month "tenement" near Broadway because his rich father, who looks like a holidaying subway guard, believes his son to have raised a check. The young socialite at last finds happiness by marrying another inmate of the apartment house whose daughter-acted by Baby Marie Polizzotto-bakes a cake throughout...
JUNE MOON-Lardner-Kaufman dialog out of the mouths of songwriters...
Author Emily Hahn gives 19 typical cases of seduction technique; each is cast in dialog form. The titles suggest the types: Feel My Muscle, You're Not the Domestic Type, An Ugly Old Thing Like Me, What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?, Music Gets Me. Author Hahn calls Seductio ad Absurdum a beginner's handbook, announces a course for advanced students in preparation: The Seducers Veni Mecum...