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...Paramount). Underworld melodrama, based on a story by Norman Krasna, directed by Fritz Lang, scored by Kurt Weill, acted by Sylvia Sidney and George Raft which, setting out to prove that Crime Does Not Pay, proves instead that the brightest names in Hollywood sometimes make its dullest pictures...
...fact that Groucho Marx receives screen credit as co-author with Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke...
Wife v. Secretary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grimly stereotyped investigation, without novel outcome, of the banal situation indicated by its title. Adapted by Norman Krasna, Alice Duer Miller and John Lee Mahin from a Faith Baldwin story, acted by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy (wife) and Jean Harlow (secretary), it is patently destined to be, for its producers, if not for their more civilized customers, one of the most profitable pictures of the year...
...adaptation by Norman Krasna of his play, Small Miracle (TIME, Oct. 8), which that screenwriter dashed off between pictures a year ago and in which he reduced the Grand Hotel formula to its lowest terms by having most of the important action take place in a telephone booth. The booth, in the lounge of a Manhattan theatre, becomes a convenient place for an escaped murderer (Richard Barthelmess) to hide while waiting to shoot the man responsible for his capture...
...owner of the department store where the coatroom boy's fiancee is a filing clerk; the detective whose daughter is about to graduate from high school; the murderer's antagonist married to the usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell Leisen's direction and Richard Barthelmess' understanding of the role of a vengeful, stubbornly romantic thug, make Four Hours To Kill a first-rate specimen of its school...