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...BRUNO FRANK, MELVYN DOUGLAS, HARLAN THOMPSON, FRANK TUTTLE, GROUCHO MARX, DONALD OGDEN STEWART, GALE SONDERGAARD, BORIS MORROS...
Zola becomes conscious of the Dreyfus case when the Captain's wife (Gale Sondergaard) begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees...
...Diane's mind, there was never any doubt about what was happening and why. Knowing Chico gave her the courage to walk across the catwalk from his room to his neighbor, Street-washer Gobin, and, later, to chase her mean sister (Gale Sondergaard) downstairs. It gave her the courage also, when she got news of Chico's death, not to believe it. After the Armistice was signed, Diane put the onion soup on the stove early to have it ready when he got back. At supper time, Chico was there...
...dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest...
...play has one set and three characters, all women. Besides Miss Nazimova, they include Dr. Monica's lady architect roommate (Gale Sondergaard) and a pregnant servant girl (Beatrice de Neergaard) whom Miss Nazimova takes in. Nazimova has been giving her husband a dose of solitude to "strengthen" him, meanwhile undergoing an operation to enable her to have a child by him. Demoralized by the operation, she is further demoralized to learn that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which...