Word: shiverings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree sophisticates, this murder mystery, of which the scene is a "deserted" church overpopulated with skull-headed bats and international criminals, will seem hardly more terrifying than a picture of Daddy Browning saying "Boo!" to an African gander. Those who are more willing shock-absorbers will conceivably shiver at its second-hand devices and be ready to believe that the door-slammings and women-screechings were really all part of a plan for trapping a desperate...
...excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...
...that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability, those who like to shiver at make-believe gunmen will be able to do so. Conrad Nagel, playing the hero, wears without embarrassment the name of "Handsome...
...Shiver Georgia...
Will Mahoney, as he waved above a flight of stairs in his perilous and finally disastrous clog, caused even famed aviators who viewed the first showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and stamped her Spanish feet. One Kitty O'Connor gave cry with what seemed practically a baritone in her joyfully accepted rendition of the song hit, "We'll Have a New Home in the Morning...