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...suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed by losses to aid in her crisis. Uncle Nordholm gets drunker than usual and insults a prelate. To top it all, the whole affair reminds Grandfather Nordholm (Paul Muni) of the day his wife went crazy so he dies also, of a heart attack...
...Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Warner). When he gets back from the War, Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...
Scarface (United Artists?Howard Hughes) is a grisly, exciting gangster picture, based in part upon the career of Alphonse ("Scarface," "Snorkey") Capone. Its vicious hero, one Tony (Paul Muni), ingeniously wins the affection of a public enemy named Lovo (Osgood Perkins) by murdering his own superior. He then embarks upon a career of informal executions, becoming invaluable to Lovo and attractive to Lovo's Poppy (Karen Morley). Presently dissension occurs between Tony and Lovo. Tony wipes out Lovo and leaves for Florida with Poppy...
Counsellor-at-Law. Playwright Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), was once a lawyer. He has now written a drama about a successful legal light named George Simon (Paul Muni). Mr. Simon, when the play begins, is sitting on top of the world but it so happens that he has a stain on his otherwise unblemished past. A kind man, he once framed testimony on behalf of a young fourth offender who would otherwise have gotten a life sentence in prison. An enemy of Lawyer Simon discovers this lapse, comes so close to ruining Lawyer Simon that Lawyer Simon is about...
...Muni Wisenfreund got a name for himself when Producer Sam Harris discovered him, presented the opportunity for his first successes in We Americans and Four Walts, in Seven Faces, a cinema (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), his work was chiefly memorable because of the fact that he acted seven parts...