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...Husband (Fox-Lasky) is a farce about the Amazons, somewhat in the manner popularized by John Erskine. It shows them happily inhabiting a country where the men-mostly effeminate or superannuated-have the social position usually ascribed to ladies in the age of Victoria. Handsome young Antiope (Elissa Landi), assistant general of the Amazon army, is incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea of staying faithful...
...pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi), one of the persecuted Christians, and Claudette Colbert, who plays Nero's wife, Poppaea, do very well, but Charles Laughton, as the fat, indolent Nero, gives the picture its life blood. See him reclining after a heavy night of delicious debauchery while he puffs for breath as slaves manicure...
...Circus, is a religious spectacle, like The King of Kings and The Ten Commandments, of the type De Mille likes best. Before starting it he said he had been waiting for ten years for the cinema to become a vehicle adequate for what he had in mind. Choosing Elissa Landi for the role of heroine, he said: ". . . She combines mysticism and sex with the pure and wholesome. There is the depth of the ages in her eyes, today in her body and tomorrow in her spirit." As is his custom, Director De Mille took his scenarists on a yachting party...
...included in the repertory of every stock company in England since it was first played in 1895, is obvious devotional melodrama. Nero (Charles Laughton) orders his lieutenant, Marcus Superbus (Fredric March), to clear Rome of Christians. While doing so, Marcus falls in love with a Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...