Word: smouldering
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...that superlative creature," is married to a drink and dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...
...across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture might have held the interest if it weren't allowed to smoulder out at the end, when the murderer is unmasked in a cloud of subtitles. It looks as if somebody started out to make a bedroom farce and then thought of making it a thriller...