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Word: rods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philandering son of a wealthy business man Rod La Rocque is just a trifle moist. As an exemplar of the fine art of seduction he leaves much to be desired, and the objects of his villiany, Barbara Stanwyck and Betty Bronson do not add anything in the way of merit to a thoroughly poor production. If Betty Bronson in particular could have forseen her future she would have stopped while the public was still applauding "Peter...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/8/1930 | See Source »

...door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot get out. Good and Evil, shut up there, wait discovery by the law?Good personified by beautiful innocent Barbara Stanwyck, Evil by the bullet-riddled body of saturnine Rod La Rocque. There is really nothing the matter with The Locked Door except that it is very old. Its antiquity has stimulated Director George Fitzmaurice to invent, by way of disguise, some effective modern sets. Best shot: the floating cabaret outside the twelve-mile limit, peopled by police spies and surrounded by well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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