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Always suspecting him and on his heels is Lionel as Guerchard, police detective, who constantly surrounds large mansions in the dead of night with his cordons of gendarmes, stalks suspiciously about empty corridors adjacent to ballrooms, and in vain does his best to make the complacent yet devilishly clever Duke feel uncomfortable. From under Guerchard's very eyes necklaces and diamonds are whisked off a dozen ladies at a dance, and a whole great hall full of portraits of "ancestors bought cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult...
...closes them noiselessly, tiptoes softly along the great corridors, and the grace and agility with which he slides down the huge, smooth stone bannisters are a pleasure to watch. One can almost smell the fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail to look downstairs. For Guerchard, naturally, the location is ideal, as nothing gives him greater pleasure than opening the entrance door with his own key, sitting in a dark niche all night guarding the family treasures, or thumbs in waistcoat, announcing in the great hall with his deep voice. "I will protect...
...requirement for both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing...
John Barrymore is a very different sort of buck. He raises one eyebrow, wears a white tie, jokes politely with a lady (Karen Morley) whom he finds naked in his bed, and carries the proud name of the Duke of Charmerace. Guerchard rather suspects, when the picture begins, that the Duke of Charmerace is Arsene Lupin. However, when he goes to a ball at the Charmerace establishment in Paris, he finds that Charmerace suspects him of the same thing. Moreover, his likeliest spy, after climbing into the Charmerace bed without her clothes, not only makes friends with Charmerace but falls...
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