Word: mclaglen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melodrama takes a new turn in Victor McLaglen's latest picture, "Nancy Steele Is Missing", at the Metropolitan this week. For a change a kidnapper is the here and succeeds despite the obvious difficulty of the role to win the audience's sympathy...
...main billing of the evening, "Sea Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture...
...Magnificent Brute (Universal) investigates the lighter side of life in the Pennsylvania steel towns. At his boardinghouse, Big Steve Andrews (Victor McLaglen) is idolized by Mrs. Finney, its proprietress, and her 10-year-old son. In the mill, he runs its most efficient furnace crew, to the chagrin of bragging Bill Morgan (William Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers...
...dealing with the life of a steelworker, any medium except the cinema would inevitably have found Labor v. Capital a central problem. For Universal, the sole problem herein was how to substitute overalls for the soldiers' uniforms McLaglen has worn in his recent pictures. Adapted from a Liberty story, directed by John G. Blystone, The Magnificent Brute effects McLaglen's demobilization with a minimum of distinction, a fair share of entertainment. Most tedious noise: McLaglen's guffaw...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...