Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas does his best, but he can't sustain the pace set by Miss Dunne. Her light yet distinguished touch together with the play's witty writing metamorphose the hackneyed plot into a superb if insignificant, "modern comedy...
...accepted current technique, but were played partly on U. S. C.'s fields, partly in the Rose Bowl, partly on a gridiron built on the Paramount tank stage. The resulting action shots are the clearest of the current football picture cycle, a verisimilitude unfortunately not shared by the plot...
...galaxy of some of Hollywood's best talent, the audience is whisked with bewildering rapidity from one love story to the next. The difficulty in keeping the proper men connected with their respective females increases with each succeeding scene and the introduction of Simone Simon to further complicate the plot is the last straw...
...successful, the audience completely gives up the ghost and settles back to enjoy the really outstanding performance of Alan Mowbray, who has found his forte in the field of comedy. As a clever magician suffering from the horrible disease of "polydigitalis" he offers a welcome relief from the plot...
...brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes off his shirt, to that where he swims the murky river with a load of lead buried in his back...