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...kiss while tribesmen's 'bullets spatter around them. At intervals they speak with as much conviction as they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years of theatrical use. Miss Ralston is beautiful and a good actress. Dix is handsome but doesn't fit his part. Silliest shot: a horrible painting of the late Lord Kitchener indicated as a suggestion for transmitting Kitchener's stencil "Carry on" to Actress Ralston after her attempted jump. Like many contemporary film people, Esther Ralston took her first part as a stage baby. She and her parents, May Howard...
...affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish, and Miss Tucker spreads her thick pink arms to embrace both of them, it is apparent that Honky Tank is one more grotesque souvenir of the earliest manner of the sound device. Silliest shot: the hero insulting Miss Tucker...
...caused by the poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums...
...awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
...chooses her flag, as you want her to deep down in your heart, and then you're sentenced and she relents, but she can't change the sentence, and you are standing in front of those rifles-well, you want the news to get there in time. Silliest shot is Lois Moran cauterizing a cut in George O'Brien's chest...