Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dialogue during the first act, and gave little gasps of glee when they understood a "s'll yous plait" or a "danke schon." But by the second act all except the most proficient linguists gave up the battle, and lazily resigned themselves to watching the few French or German-horn person in the audience and laughing heartily whenever they gave signs of being amused...
...lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango is intelligently thought out and beautifully photographed-a scientific document and a work of art at the same time, far more valuable though less exciting than the graphic Trader Horn. Best shot: a long battle between a tiger and a water buffalo, in which the buffalo stabs the tiger to death with its pointed horns. A shot that makes women scream and strong men close their eyes: the tiger killing the baby orangutan...
City Lights is not silent in the strictest sense. Synchronized sound effects and music are used beginning with the very first sequence, where the talkies are burlesqued by horn sounds that make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between...
Incomparably the best jungle picture made so far, Trader Horn will stand, where censors do not gut it, high among the pictures of this or any year. It contains a great deal of savagery, with a love story for sweetening. Trader Horn (oldtime Wild West Cinemactor Harry Carey) and his friend Little Peru find a white native goddess (Edwina Booth), daughter of a deceased missionary. She saves them from being roasted upside down. They flee. Eventually Mr. Carey prudently wraps a blanket around naively nude Miss Booth, sends her on to civilization with Peru, then heads off again into...
...producers have given Trader Horn a rather terrifying flavor of reality. Lions kill before your eyes. A man is gored by a rhinoceros. Best performance is given by one Mutia Omoolu, a black gunbearer who returned with the troupe from Africa, lived in a hut on the Metro lot, hated Hollywood...