Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each film has redeeming features. Dick Powell is not in "Navy Blue and Gold"; Tom Brown is rather funny as he periodically enjoys "the happiest day of his life"; and there is only one spectacular run in the final football game--although Navy wins, of course. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" is not a tearjerker; Mickey Rooney does a good bit of acting as the cocky "Click" Donovan; and Judy Garland is very funny as a would-be glamorous actress...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...
...Invisible Menace (Warner Bros.) involves Boris Karloff and a job lot of studio doughboys in a murder mystery in a U. S. arsenal. Unfortunately for the film, erstwhile Bogeyman Karloff is not the menace; fortunately, he is not invisible either...
...philosophy of "The Magnificent Obsession," the feature currently being revived at the Hub. Starring Robert Taylor, who proves conclusively that he is more than a pretty face, and Irene Dunne, who is certainly one of Hollywood's most versatile and talented actresses, this is an outstanding film. No one who missed "The Magnificent Obsession" two years ago should fail to go to the Hub this week...
...this as a basis, Director John M. Stahl has built an intensely absorbing story the story of the love of Bobby Merrick for Mrs. Hudson. Sad but not depresing, emotional but not overdone, the story holds the audience spell bound with an artistry rare in these days of colossal film "epics...