Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first...
...Shot (RKO) : Guy Kibbee and Cora Witherspoon extracting the last ounce of humor from a story about a veterinarian who uses the fortune he inherits from a racketeer to crusade against rackets...
...magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack...
...Faces of 1937 (RKO). As its title, from Leonard Sillman's Broadway revues of 1934 and 1936, suggests, this picture aims to present to cinemaddicts a gallery of heretofore unknown players. Unfortunately, of the numerous new faces in the cast, few belong to performers engaged in major roles. These are handled by such eminently unnovel entertainers as Milton Berle, Joe Penner, Harriet Hilliard, and Parkyakarkus...
Riding on Air (RKO). Joe E. Brown as a smalltown reporter who wins a $5,000 prize, invests it in a shady airplane venture, nearly kills himself trying...