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...falls down here partly because of the niggardly sum that is to be invested, and partly because of the uninteresting people who are to invest it. Crosby sings songs that we vaguely remember hearing a few months ago, and wins the coveted fortune by the most preposterous "deus ex machina" we have seen in some time. The picture is hardly to be recommended on its own merits, but those who sit through it will be interested by Fox Movietone's All-American selections. We can hardly believe that Clint Frank is such a good player...
...with the Countess, kills himself so she can escape. The Countess and A. J. board a river boat for the border and it looks as though their troubles are ove r until the Countess falls ill. At the border, the American Red Cross enters the proceedings as deus ex machina. Marlene is popped into a sickbed. A. J. dodges one more firing squad, boards her hospital train as it pulls away from Russia...
Euripides thought of that. Uncle Phil was his dells ex machina...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
Smoky (Fox Film), based on the best-selling romance by Cowboy Artist-Author Will James, traces a mustang's career in sentimental detail. In this unusual Western, the horse is the protagonist, the cowboy deus ex machina to save him from the glue-factory in the end. Even the love interest centres on Smoky. Critical of the first sketches the rancher's arty daughter makes of his horse, the cowboy finally succumbs when she produces a good statue...