Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Fox). Somewhat baffled by the problem of making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was...
The melodramatics are 19th Century with the difference that they are always faked for the effect on the other characters, who look at the ground most of the time, except when they look up to "drill" one another or to look fleetingly in one another's eyes and swear...
"A Sentimental Journey"
Mr. Donaldson's "A Sentimental Journey" is a clever bit, in which smart young people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry...
There is Professor Fay walking in the garden with the Kaiser talking in gentle epigram under the moon. There is Professor Langer who starts all Revolutions on a hot night when there were festoons in the windows and sees all Europe marching while Bismarck in the corner beats the time...