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...butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer to watch him use it on shelves of tableware. A prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes to bed alone, without her stockings. A forger (George Raft) is unable to find anyone who will cash a good check for him. He ends by trading it for one night's shelter, to the proprietor of a 10? lodging house who uses it to light a cigar. A bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth...
...inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist hung an apron of strung shells. A dagger of antler dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have been recovered if a scientific digger...
Night After Night (Paramount) is the Grand Hotel of the speakeasy industry, a glib, neatly put together formula-picture illustrating the hypothesis that true love chuckles at grilled doors. The proprietor of the speakeasy in this picture is no common Tony; he is Joe Anton (George Raft) and his blind-tiger is as elegant as his double-breasted dinner coat. When Joe Anton observes a fetching gilded youngster propping her face against his champagne glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia...
...friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions they plodded miles to what they thought was a signal fire, arrived exhausted to find an unattended bush fire. They "caught lizards on the rocks, which we ate raven ously." They fashioned a raft from one of their seaplane floats, paddled for five days in a rough sea, saw a steamer pass within a mile of them. Hunger drove them again ashore, to feed on snails and leaves. On the 38th day "to our great excitement we sighted a black, who brought a large fish...
...Complication is injected when the band leader (Jack Oakie), long a friend of Collier, tries to break up the union. Action is kept at a swift pace by lust, robbery, off-stage murder and, finally, the shooting of Oakie by a gun-toting habitue of the dance hall (George Raft). Good shot: Miss Hopkins, eyes half shut, singing "St. Louis Blues'' while the ten-centers wiggle according to dance hall form...