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...companion piece shows Miriam Hopkins in an unusual role. As "Temple Drake" she wallows through a muck of William Faulkener situations with a drunken Southern boy, captured by gangsters, fascinated with the gang leader Trigger, ably played by William LaRue, she runs the gamut of degradation and disgrace to show you that the Southern girl at nineteen is dangerous, inbred, and crawling with complexes...
...they have time to arrange the details, she has a caller, Randall Williams (Victor Jory) who hopes that Vicki still remembers their romance which ended years before when he told her he was married. Through cocktails and a supper party in a speakeasy, where she meets Mrs. Randall Williams (Miriam Jordan), Vicki tries to make up her mind. She has practically decided to take a trip to Europe with Williams when he tells her that he plans to have her portrait painted so that this time, when their romance ends, he will have a souvenir. Thoroughly disgusted, Vicki stops packing...
...tells her stupid father they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried it out of the dead Trigger's clenched fingers...
...MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD...
Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...