Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hallelujah" scene is presented very effectively, and the singing is some of the best that has appeared in the sound pictures. In fact, the entire vocal side of the picture is more than satisfactory. The plot is an exact adaptation of the original musical comedy as are some of the scenes, but this is by no means unpleasant...
Josef Suss. The revenge plot, which occurred so often in early drama, is no longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss...
...plot involves a war between the U. S. and Switzerland caused by a tariff on milk chocolate, but the absurdities that you expect from this idea are never quite realized. Furthermore, the costumes were apparently designed by someone who realized that lengthier skirts were in order, even upon the stage, but did not know how to compensate for non-exposure. The settings exhibit various unhappy juxtapositions of color...
...plot provides a noble red-dressed bandit, vaguely Russian, whose sister is unaccountably ruined by a prince. Bandit murders prince, drags princess of whom he is heavily enamoured through the mountrains. This princess is a blonde new to pictures named Catherine Dale Owen, whose contribution is an unnecessarily sour look while being sung to. Best shot: Tibbett, after he is captured, bellowing a song while floggers flay his naked torso in the presence of the princess...
...McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor in an old act from the Ziegfeld Follies...