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...Franchot Tone is the leading example of a boy who went to college and then became a big shot in the movies...
...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
Exclusive in only the most metaphorical sense, the story also concerns itself with the efforts of a star reporter (Stuart Erwin) to track down the racketeers; the professional vagaries of a tippling public prosecutor (Franchot Tone), and his shilly-shallying with two young ladies (Madge Evans, Louise Henry); the vocational difficulties of the neurotic triggerman (Joseph Calleia) for the numbers racketeers. Best scene in the picture and most gruesome* in the month's crop of such exhibits shows the public prosecutor torturing the triggerman into a wholesale confession of his crimes by beating him, strapping him into a chair...
...reverse of the medal, ornamented by the likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...
...Dangerous is partially disguised in the suave dialog written for it by Laird Doyle and by the presence of Bette Davis, currently Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of femmes fatales, whose wicked eye-poppings outdo those with which she made her reputation in Of Human Bondage. Typical shot: Franchot Tone muttering, "It can't go on like this...