Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every gesture reeks of wickedness. Prof. Jones, having once played this very same role in a stock company, must be well pleased in his disciple. Another piece of really brilliant acting is turned in by Richard F. Rabenold '39 in a rather minor part, that of the grubbing pawn broker. Charles Tuttle '37 is both lovely and affecting as the long suffering heroine. But Howard Bristol '38 as her mother is a veritable revelation in matronly dignity. The actors are all surprisingly good...
...with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous as his, he has simply...
...this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked with his. When...
...needed at that point in the Medici fortunes was a healthy boy. Having at last attained the Papacy, the Medici clan were in imminent danger of petering out. But useless as she might be in her own small person, Uncle Giovanni planned to use her as a political pawn, schemed how to marry her to best Medici advantage...
...addressed as "Your Majesty," is called that anyway. He broods: "It's strange . . . that one should learn how to rule after the chance of ruling has gone." Finally he arrives on the Riviera with only his faithful valet and a few jewels left. Sent to pawn the jewels, the valet goes to Madame St. Aurlon, sells them to her, begs her to come back. Simultaneously the two unscrupulous businessmen, having trouble with their dictator, ask Madame St. Aurlon to persuade Regis to return to the throne. She flies to him at Cannes. After various vicissitudes, Regis successfully stages...