Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnificent humor, but the stuff of which that humor is made. With the possible exception of one strange little man who runs around with cups of loaded coffee, every character comes straight out of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue,--the hero, doughy, and cute; the heroine, sultry siren; the ba-ad, ba-a-ad gangster; the well-greased reporter; beefy foto-man; city editor on the perpetual verge of a nervous breakdown; and then, of course, somebody gets murdered just to start things off with a bang. A perfect set-up for a grade-B picture...
...grade-A. Author and cast took the cut and dried characters and unstocked them with a vengence. Siren Bennett gives out more laughs than heat-waves. Hero John Hubbard is slightly half-witted. Sleuth-reporter Menjou finds no clues, "reconstructed the crime" only once, and terrified gangland with a barrage of firecrackers. The whole picture is an uproarious burlesque on all murder-newsroom sex quickies past, present, and future...
...haired, shouting Slovakian Propaganda Minister Sano Mach, pulled up at the front of the hotel at the same moment Welles's car drew up. Unobtrusive in a dark suit and black soft hat, poker-faced Sumner Welles gave no sign of interest or annoyance as the air-raid siren screamed a false alarm, the Adlon's lobby filled with gesticulating, heel-clicking, heiling Slovakians, obscuring his own arrival...
...series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian...