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...English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible sequences: Lieutenant Chavez (Harold Huber) thrice presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter stopped and searched at sea, proclaiming his outraged feelings in lan guage as colorful and crossed-up as the Union Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...theatrical manager (Adolphe Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah Ray, outrageous clowning by the Ritz Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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