Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...siren too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish Sultan...
...young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
...turns to the bare minimum of an Algerian dancing girl. She unwittingly betrays her people by falling in love with a French spy, masquerading as an Arab to learn of the regular monthly Tuareg rebellion. The happy ending is easily anticipated, although she stabs herself. In her first semi-vamp role, Miss Talmadge makes good. But Joseph Schildkraut seems to be working under wraps. Atmosphere is generally excellent, being obviously hand-made only in the girl's name-Noorma-Hal, fashioned from the cable address of the Talmadge company...
...Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain. The direction is intelligent, the supporting cast splendid and the picture, in general, well worth seeing-what it lacks is a couple of drops of genius-and that is no uncommon lack...
...LOVE-Pola Negri succeeds in occasionally vivifying a typical sirenade of Liane, the toast of the boulevards, whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch. After tenting on the old vamp ground unrepentantly, through numerous reels, she discovers sin's ultimate wage to be strangulation and is murdered by ex-lover No. 19 in the middle of a carnival. A German film with the usual admirable mass-effects...