Word: inescort
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Perhaps the two least good performances were those of Ralph Forbes and Frieda Inescort as Mr. and Mrs. Crampton-Clandon. Miss Inescort was so overshadowed by Miss Brook, as her daughter, that the moral force of her character never became quite so overwhelming as it should have. Forbes' portrayal of the blustering father was understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will...
Most will enjoy hearing from an excellent cast (including Edmund Gwenn, Edna May Oliver, Melville Cooper, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frieda Inescort) some of the most literate dialogue ever spoken on a sound track...
...story, which once ran in the Ladies Home Journal, is one of Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...
...Portia On Trial" is the first important production of Republic Pictures, and should be viewed with indulgence, as should Miss Inescort, a nervous young lady recently imported from the New York stage. The dialogue is crude, and most of the parts are overacted. The film has its good points, but is rather a disappointment...
Portia on Trial (Republic). Frieda Inescort rattles the skeletons in the closet of ruthless Publisher Clarence Kolb to free Heather Angel of a murder charge...