Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must give the makers of "Looking for Trouble" credit for originality, at least. To build a movie around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack...
...hopeless case; soon they were in love. When Amy met a Tammany lawyer and made eyes at him, Castie soon got a parole and Amy's husband the horns he had long deserved. Oliver, torn between his ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake. Oliver, his eye on forensic laurels, foolishly...
Fine Arts--"The Mad Age". Reviewed in this issue...
Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer of "The Mad Age," searched in the New York, Washington and Hollywood film records of the past and supplemented them with new and modern shots. It took six months to complete the film. During this time, Seldes and Ulliman, screened and discarded more than a million feet of film enough to make two hundred feature pictures...
Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...