Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's Orpheum--Greta Garbo teams up with popular film gangster and screen idol Clark Gable, to produce picture with demure title "Susan Lenox...
Wonder Boy is a savage, undisciplined, hilarious comedy of the cinemindustry, presented in the breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed...
...strongly resembles Scarf ace Capone); he finds himself unwilling accessory to a killing, soon realizes that he is caught between the millstones of gang warfare. When Molina falls, Harworth goes with him. If cinema audiences continue to favor gang pictures, The Silver Eagle should make money as a film...
...above implies in toto to "Karamazov," a German talking film at the Fine Arts Theatre. It purports to be taken from Dostoevsky's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," but has only the vaguest resemblance to it, so that the plot may prove thrilling even to those who have read the book. The direction, typically Continental, is particularly Teutonic in its effort for detailed correctness of setting and costume--even the windows of the bar where the hero imbibes are lettered in appropriate Russian for beer, tea, and coffee. But it seems unnecessary to stress such perfection of immaterial details, especially...
There are several features in the film which may be singled out for appreciation. Some gypsy Russian singing and dancing forms an admirable interlude, and there is some fine photography of trees. The best characterization is that of the idiot Smerdyakov, played by Fritz Rasp...