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...Fighting Eagle (Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver). According to Conan Doyle's story, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, that hero's bombast was rivaled only by Emperor Napoleon's bombardment. The film shows Gerard bragging, boasting, swaggering and finally redeeming himself by helping the heroine recover important state papers from the wily Talleyrand. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. From that day forth, it is, "I sez to my friend, the Emperor...
...Robson). Aunt Mary's nephew enters an automobile race and she clambers into the car to feed him pumpkin pie while he roars around the track. The heroine (Phyllis Haver) fears this will be the death of the 70-year-old lady, so she commandeers an ambulance and tears after them. In the end, everybody is feeling fine, including the audience and a patient who is discovered crawling out of the ambulance...
...later scenes show him deflated and ennobled. His bank has sent him to Chicago to dispose of a batch of securities. There, taken in by the misleading lady (Phillis Haver), he has lost successively his whiskers, sobriety, chastity, bonds, nerve and identity. The world believes him the victim of bandits. Repentant, he obscures himself to preserve that illusion for the good name of his beloved children. Years later, the bedraggled old Zeus is pictured peeping through frost-dimmed windows to behold from his own shadowed squalor the riches and happiness of his grown-up family. While Mr. Jannings...
...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...
...cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...