Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...
...King and the Chorus Girl (Warner Brothers) starts with a sequence in which a Paris doctor diagnoses the alarming coma of young ex-King Alfred (Fernand Gravet). "Never in my entire life," he tells the ex-King's ex-Chancellor (Edward Everett Horton), "have I ever seen anyone so completely drunk." Between this sequence and the picture's last, exhibiting an ocean liner at Niagara Falls, The King and the Chorus Girl whirls through a series of urbanely insane and expertly executed narrative gyrations which make it probably the most unique and certainly the most enjoyable light comedy...
When finally aroused, ex-King Alfred proceeds from his customary breakfast of brandy direct to the Folies Bergere, where ennui induced by watching the can-can restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King...
Next day two of those who got out died. One was Ted Mullen, the master of ceremonies. Just before he died he mumbled through blistered lips: "Do you think I'll ever be able to skate?" The doctor assured him that he would. "Funny.'' Ted Mullen whispered. "I never was able to before...
...Outcast" tells the story of a doctor (Warren William)) pursued by the vengeance of a family which believes him guilty of the death of one of its members. The particular agent of retribution is Karen Morley, sister-in-law of the dead woman. The melodramatic note enters when a moh attempts to lynch both Morley and William. The lynching scene is about the most improbable and at the same time one of the most effective ever filmed...