Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such a simple, straightforward manner that the somewhat fantastic melodramatic details rarely seem exaggerated, and always are powerfully moving...
Reginald Denny, with his nicely twisted gentleman's moustache is the man who somewhat naively solves "The Preview Murder Mystery." The plot hinges upon a cinema director's suspicion that his actress-wife, Gail Patrick, is in love with the hero of a film which he has just finished. Threatening notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent...
...somewhat softly booms A Somme bombardment: almost unbelieved-in looms...
...Somewhat suppressed is the humor of the distinguished pair: Ginger's candid pertness and Fred's urbane, nonchalant thrusts. In this picture they go through a rather desultory courtship, which might amuse those who enjoy witnessing embarrassment, but can hardly satisfy those who look for the crisp and the bright. The other thread of romance between Randolph Scott and Harris Hilliard, adds but little...
...juveniles are the real center of interest, however, and the lead is capably done by Eric Linden as the valedictorian of his class who is really a fine boy but somewhat carried off through reading Swinburne, Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecillia Parker is the sweetheart who promises to remember him even after he has gone away to Yale...