Word: newsreel
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...money. This is primarily because it duos Mr. Gable and Miss Loy, who once again give sterling performances of the devil-may-care variety. This is also because, in its own right, it is an amusing, a genuinely exciting picture. The plot, which concerns an ace newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon, is a convenient frame on which to hang a series of thrilling climaxes. These thrills, which include shots of plane crack-ups, burning ships, and devil...
...voice is the voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith. Helhapoppin turns out to be toothless old vaudeville trying to act like a lusty, bellowing babe. From the time the curtain goes up on a cockeyed newsreel in which Hitler talks with a Yiddish accent and Mussolini with a Negro one, Helha-poppin-gagging, hamming, roughhousing all the way-does not miss a trick...
...particular interest is the "University Newsreel" which has been compiled from three leading services and gives a graphic picture of Mr. Hitler's ten parties and their momentous outcome...
Simplicity marks the newsreel, which is largely a collection of shots from all parts of the distressed areas of the seaboard. There is no "clever" photography or editorialized comment, yet these advance pictures give a vivid portrayal of last week's disaster...
...picture for double features because of its length (106 min.), it should persuade even cinemaddicts who are sour on newsreels that they would do well to give Graham McNamee one more chance. Good shot: picture within a picture, when Miss Loy sees the newsreel Clark Gable has pretended to destroy, at a Manhattan preview...