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...some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body of the heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...misapprehension of court procedure, her harassing interruptions and questions, so acutely demonstrate the feminine at its silliest that men in the audience writhe in remembrance, everybody laughs, high comedy is anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...boring as her stolid acting usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed it up with some expensive sets and a little indifferent singing. Silliest shot: rich codger telling Miss Joy why he admires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable jealousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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