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Secrets of the French Police (RKO), secrets wholly unlike those of the U. S. police, form a pleasantly lurid fable in which the Paris gendarmery is faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever...
Toward the end of What Price Holly wood its satire is somewhat confused by sentiment but there are passages at the gay beginning which have the raucous air of wisecracks from Variety. When Mary Evans meets her producer (Gregory Ratoff), he chases her out of the room, crying to his three reassuring assistants : "No, No! One yes at a time." Presently he calls her back, gives her a seven-year contract. Constance Bennett is a pound or two heavier than heretofore, less gruff* in her speech...
...breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed into new clothes, given a new name ("Buddy" for democracy, "Windsor" for aristocracy...