Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that anecdote current last week in the film industry, critics wondered if an executive had asserted that The Public Enemy was not going to be anything like Little Caesar. In detail The Public Enemy is nothing like that most successful of gangster pictures, but its central idea is identical...
Outside Congress, "Nick" Longworth was the gay, garrulous bon vivant whom Washington officialdom knew and loved best. About him in his Massachusetts Avenue home his friends constantly gathered informally. A thorough musician (he had a standing order for new compositions from the Library of Congress), he would play on the...
The Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good...
On a lonely road he encounters one Marilyn, a pretty and willful girl. Almost before he knows it he finds himself in the midst of Long Island Bohemia. Marilyn is in love with a sinister but sentimental racketeer, one-armed Charlie MacRae, who in turn idolizes the slightly shopworn Sheila...
Man of the World (Paramount). William Powell plays the role of a slightly sentimental blackmailer, faced by an unusual dilemma. Operating in Paris as editor of a scandal sheet he performs his extortions so skilfully that he finds himself admired by his victims and falls in love with one of...