Word: hokum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S motto: De mortuis nil hokum...
Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...
...Brimstone (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), an old-fashioned Western, elaborately cast, expensively produced, neither better nor worse than scores like it, has the speed, dusty swagger, standardized hokum of the standardized Western. Its dullness is often redeemed by Wallace Beery's loutish homicidal cuteness as the bad man with a heart of gold...
...lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are handled in pseudo-mysterious manner, sometimes reminiscent of George M. Cohan's famed burlesque, The Tavern, sometimes just good-natured hokum...
According to Colonel Apted the whole business is just newspaper hokum. "There's nothing to get excited about. Nobody's interested around here...