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...typical Delmar character, the cab driver, George Raft, and the pick-up fall in love. He becomes a garage owner, and they live happily in the suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
...point George Raft exposed his hairy chest. Half of the audience chortled loudly; from a very small minority were heard subdued sighs; the rest gasped. The point is small, but any director who believes that unnecessary scenes, in which women or men undress, will make the movie more popular is hopelessly deluded. The objection is not based on prudery or smugness. But superfluous scenes break the continuity of a story and spoil the effect of those following for some time...
...George Raft is not too successful as the cab driver. He was like a puppet guided by an inexpert amateur. Especially in the scenes with the society siren did he show his lack of versatility in acting. A pleasant contrast to the poor interpretation of Mr. Raft was the almost flawless acting of Miss Sidney. She has remarkable reserve in depicting sentimentally emotional scenes which Helen Hayes, who has been so highly praised, lacks. Without a flood of tears, with the slightest modulation in voice, which paradoxically should be the reaction of the opposite emotion, she can show her consternation...
...producer, the first mate and several companions set off after Kong. They soon discover that the jungle is full of antediluvian hobgoblins. They try to cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate...
Born on his well-to-do parents' farm near Carthage, Tenn., Cordell Hull used to raft logs down the Cumberland River. With a law degree from Cumberland University, he quickly mixed practice and politics, served briefly in the State Legislature. During the Spanish War he captained a company of the 40th Tennessee Volunteers. Because he once sat on the district bench, most Tennesseeans still call him "Judge." In 1906 he was elected to the House where he wrote the first Federal income tax law (1913), the first Federal inheritance tax law (1916). When the Harding landslide...