Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second feature, "Angles Over Broadway," is a Saroyanesque romance-a drama of strange but real little folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role...
...quite some time now. The picture is funny, if you can forget that Barrymore once played Hamlet, and played it magnificently, and if you can forget that he comes from the American theatre's royal family. If you can forget all that, and just take him for a drunken, lecherous, old man with a sense of humor and a flair of exhibitionism, you'll enjoy the picture. But actually, another aristocrat has bit the dust...
Some of the twelve scenes started toward straight satire but most of them wound up utterly cuckoo. When Savo performed a drunken surgical operation, his patient's insides yielded a number of colored balloons, a string of sausages, and finally a Punch & Judy show. As a washerwoman by a stream, he was interrupted, for no ascertainable reason, by the passing - of an invisible fox hunt, but returned to the amorous contemplation of a union suit. Time & again he was a citizen of a never-never land as fantastical as that inhabited by Krazy...
Still boiling mad was Ed McNew when, two days later, he started across the street toward the courthouse to answer a charge of drunken driving. Suddenly, from behind a corner, out popped Photographer Jones again and leveled his camera. That was too much for Ed McNew. He grabbed at his hip pocket, hauled out a pistol, took aim with both hands, and blazed away. Photographer Jones dodged back behind the wall-but not until he had snapped another picture of Ed McNew. One of the most remarkable newsphotos ever taken, staring straight into the muzzle...
...coniform hills of Japan, he conjured up a huge three-legged crow to guide him and his warriors (begat by whom, no one knows) to fruitful places. Jimmu made jars out of Mt. Kagu, filled them with rice wine, placed them in the River Nyu, and when the drunken fish wobbled to the surface, he said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that...