Word: muny
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...industry to its foundations. Big John winds up in the dock facing a Sherman Anti-Trust suit. It looks bad for Big John until Square John repents, takes the witness stand to score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much...
Following rather closely the lines laid down by "The Life of Louis Pasteur," Warner's latest burst of social consciousness depicts Dr. Ehrlich's battle against microbes and pig-headed colleagues. It is especially fortunate that Edward G. Robinson was not so completely bowled over by Muni's characterization of Pasteur as to model his own Dr. Ehrlich after him, for a Robinson wiggling his eyebrows and flapping his hands a la Muni would have presented a sad caricature of both Messrs. Muni and Ehrlich. But Robinson steers clear of the trodden path and creates a character...
...director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
...brusque, bearded, puttering Dr. Ehrlich, Edward G. Robinson gives a conscientious performance, which, without the flashes of dramatic insight that make Paul Muni a great actor, is also without the self-conscious mannerisms that some times turn Muni's art into artiness...