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...obvious problem which confronted Director Ernst Lubitsch was how to make moving pictures tell a story in which not the actions of the characters but the dark violence of their thoughts was the important matter. His dialog writers did not help him much and there are probably actors who would have done better as the remorseful Frenchman than Phillips Holmes, though the part is well adapted to Holmes's technique of behaving as though in a quandary at all times. Lionel Barrymore as the father of the dead German acts magnificently and so far out of his ordinary manner that...
...creative skill which used to show in the suave touches which Lubitsch put into his comedies comes out here in other directions?a shot of marching feet for which the camera was placed just behind a one-legged soldier; doorbells ringing in the Falsburg shops as the shopkeepers come out to watch a Frenchman going down the street; a gravedigger telling the German boy's fiancee (Nancy Carroll) that a Frenchman stopped to speak to him and gave...
...Berlin shopkeeper, Ernst Lubitsch was made to work in his father's store while he learned enough about acting to get a job with Max Reinhardt. In 1913 he performed in cinema for the first time, liked it so much he never went back to the stage. He went to Hollywood to direct Mary Pickford in Rosita nine years ago, after making himself and Pola Negri famous with Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night and Du Barry (called Passion...
...Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount) was expensively designed to provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess...
...Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...