Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...
...than the title. Admirers of Hans Fallada's "Little Man What Now" will find that Frank Borzage has made a thoroughly enjoyable and faithful version of this much discussed novel, which is to be seen at Keith's this week. Though hampered by a rather sentimental and undistinguished plot, this talented director has nearly succeeded, with the aid of a nearly succeeded, with the aid of a splendid cast, in giving us another "Seventh Heaven...
...heaped on her bids fair to outshine la Hepburn, gives a charming impersonation of Lammchen, the devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault of his, but his flighty mother-in-law is indifferent to helping them. Finally they are taken...
...aided considerably by a distinguished group of players in accomplishing this. Mr. Borgage has created a thoroughly German atmosphere in attractive settings and has made the events believable. Miss Sullavan's ability and beauty and the distinguished direction will make you forget all about the shortcomings of the plot...