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...Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
Night Must Fall (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer). Any moving picture in which the hero is an egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London...
Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Old Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with...
Captains Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Amusingly highlighted by scenes showing Toomai and Kala Nag stealing melons and Toomai making Kala Nag take a bath (see cut), magnificently climaxed by the elephant hunt, superbly photographed throughout, Elephant Boy is the first of three forthcoming Kipling pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The elephant hunt in the picture is a real one; it included a herd...