Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criminal Lawyer (RKO) adds nothing to the standard pattern of courtroom melodramas. Engaged to a girl he does not love and working for a notable criminal, shyster Lawyer Brandon (Lee Tracy) ditches both when he encounters a pretty streetwalker (Margot Grahame) in night court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...
...Plough and the Stars (RKO) is Dudley Nichols' adaptation of Sean O'Casey's famed play about Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. As the prize exhibit in the repertoire of the Abbey Players, The Plough and the Stars long ago achieved the rating of a contemporary classic. Its grimy and discursive picture of Dublin life, as background for the grim story of its principals, made it a contemptuous portrait, almost a definition of Ireland before the Free State. The current version of The Plough and the Stars-in which Director John Ford was assisted...
That Girl from Paris (RKO). Like...
...much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
...some producer rounds up Hollywood's alarmingly large child actor population for an all-star effort, possibly on the lines of Grand Hotel in a day nursery, there is no chance for new discoveries in the well-explored terrain of plots for such performers. Central figures of both RKO's Rainbow on the River and Twentieth Century-Fox's Stowaway are, as usual, waifs doing as much good for themselves as possible and struggling hard to keep out of the orphanage...