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...when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...
...reason for all these troubles and misfortunes is that our country is controlled by the silliest and sloppiest sentimentalists who have ever in all history sat on the Treasury bench. The government of Britain and her empire has for some peculiar reason been entrusted to the weakest invertebrates in the country...
...detail. But the producers developed it stupidly, could not keep improbability out of a situation and background so thoroughly within the experience of cinema audiences that the slightest divergence from reality is instantly detected. A smart cast, including Lewis Stone and Dorothy Mackaill, makes it a fair program film. Silliest shot: secretaries revealing their love for Executive Stone by having fainting fits...
...second is the fade-out?the cast out of character formally grouped on a painted stage with orchestra below and Jolson with his face washed white expressing the wish that his cinema audience enjoyed themselves as much in sitting through the picture as he did in making it. Silliest shot: Jolson saying goodby to Big Boy after being discharged...
...love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall to give a concert...