Word: mclaglen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed to forget." More at home in Under Two Flags are Ronald Colman, who wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many a bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part...
...McLaglen is the swaggering Irish officer whose jealous desire for Cigarette sets in motion the magnificently-photographed battle which is the film's best feature...
...worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy depends mainly upon...
...brother temporarily dampens their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...
...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...