Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose of adrenalin, giving the deck steward a ?5 note...
...Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein (Fox) has the distinction of the longest title out of Hollywood this year. It purports to be a biographical sketch of Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler whose murder, in Manhattan's Park Central Hotel in 1928, remains unsolved to this...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...
Every best-seller sooner or later comes out of Hollywood in pictorial form. Usually the producers can't resist trying to revise the original, with the result that their version bears no other resemblance to it than the title. Admirers of Hans Fallada's "Little Man What Now" will find that Frank Borzage has made a thoroughly enjoyable and faithful version of this much discussed novel, which is to be seen at Keith's this week. Though hampered by a rather sentimental and undistinguished plot, this talented director has nearly succeeded, with the aid of a nearly succeeded, with...
...Hollywood has scaled Olympus, the impossible has been attained--gentlemen, for the first time in cinema history a child actor has appeared who is wholly natural, who does not simper, who is not affected, who is genuinely likeable, and who is really amusing. Journey to the Met this week, if examinations possibly permit, if only to revive a rapidly vanishing belief in miracles...