Word: vidor
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...week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability that all fears that Peter Pan would be her only claim to fame are gratefully laid aside, and another actress of the first rank is admitted...
...Hollywood. Too many tears and a bathing party normally indicate simplicity and the moral. Christine, dealing in sincerity, is an exception. It argues the old theme of a man's work and a man's wife, and how much time he should give to each. It takes Christine (Florence Vidor) three husbands to reach her decision...
...Florence Vidor as Barbara, Edmund Lowe as Cadet Trumbull, Lambert Hillyer as director have done passably, not impressively, with a grand historical possibility...
...fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency by King Vidor, a director who can evoke a heart-quaking spirit of mystery without a single trapdoor. Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel de Brulier are splendid instruments in one of the exceptional pictures of the year. And a most extraordinary characterization is done by Charles A. Post as a modern Caliban...
...best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored. "Sauce for the Goose" is snappily translated into "fifty-fifty." A sly hint is given of the temptations to which a fashionable doctor is subjected by lovely patients with uncontrollable nerves and eyes. Never have Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Creighton Hale, Marie Prevost acted so impossibly well. Not once is an emotion convulsively registered. Name the Man. Hall Caine and the Isle of Man are almost always sure to result in an unsanctioned baby. This production from his book, The Master of Man, runs true to form in almost...