Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternates from the sentimental to the ludicrously funny, excellent photography, and amusing sound effects. Renate Muller, as Susie, comes to Vienna looking for a job. She gets it, and eventually lands the Herr Director Arvay (Owen Nares) by some clever angling. But the comedy which runs through the entire film is the best feature of the show: Jack Hulbert does magnificently as Hasel, the doorman who, on Wednesday nights, leads the musical society at Schultz's beer garden; Herr Klapper, played by Morris Harvey, is particularly good when trying to talk with a severe cold in his head...
Winfield Sheehan will again take charge of Fox Film productions when his leave of absence ends in about a month. Mr. Sheehan's plans had been a matter of conjecture. Longtime associate (since 1914) of William Fox, he sided with the company's bankers when Mr. Fox was ousted, was said to have suffered a sudden breakdown late last year. Last week's news followed Fox President Edward Richmond Tinker's first official Hollywood inspection...
Collaborating with the University Film Foundation; the Graduate School of Education will present a series of educational films demonstrating motion picture materials available in several fields of instruction. The films will be shown in the auditorium of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, and are open to members of the University...
...Ladies of the Big House" is meant as a prison film to end prison films, the definitive edition of convict sages. It is adequately enough constructed, and well provided with dramatic suspense. But there is nothing new about it. A corrupt city government precipitates two innocent youngsters into prison, the girl to be held for life, the boy to be hanged. There are borrowing days of suspense while the two look "for evidence to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best decor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells...
...still like to see prison-gates clang and hear prison-horns howl in the night, the film will probably entertain...