Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Rambeau is called upon to solve again the old problem of how far a wife should go to keep her husband out of the villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...
...smile may mean a date...
...Washington time) Harry Garbutt sank through the trap of the San Quentin gallows. As he mounted the gallows steps he confessed to a guard: "I fired the shot. Of course, I didn't mean...
...thing called inhibitions, which is when you want to do a thing and you do not do it. So then you dream about it instead. So Dr. Froyd asked me what I seemed to dream about. So I told him that I never really dream about anything. I mean I use my brains so much in the day time that at night they do not seem to do anything else but rest. So Dr. Froyd was very very surprised at a girl who did not dream about anything. So then he asked me all about my life. I mean...
...Sutherland has filled his picture with a lot of funny guys which strain needlessly for an extra laugh. There is plenty of humor in the expressionless face of Wallace Beery without going into Gorge Jean Nathanisms to obtain it. Secondly, the direction is ham, and by that we mean that it is distinctly ordinary and obvious. The scenes are not quite real, the French village looks like some left over set and in short the picture is continually off key if compared to King Vidor's splendid instrument...