Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount: "The Case of the Curious Bride," 10.23, 1, 3.37, 6.14, 8.41. "Hold 'Em Yale...
...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...Paramount--"McFadden's Flats," A.M., 9.00, 11.37; P.M., 2.14, 4.41, 7.18, 9.55. "The Florentine Dagger...
Private Worlds (Paramount). Said Ernst Lubitsch, onetime director and now Paramount's new production chief, last fortnight: "Eight hundred motion pictures are produced in Hollywood each year. That means that some one must strive to contrive to have the boy meet the girl in a different way than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where...
Mississippi (Paramount). To many a cinemaddict any W. C. Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...