Word: villain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
...Love Mart. Incredibly enough, the villain of this picture suspects the heroine, whose skin is as white as her well-bleached character, of being an octoroon. The only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips...
...membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals, sniffing for human interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle of Blanton and Bloom to the interpretation of drab statistics assembled...
Explosion is about two men, one a villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax...
...well remember a last season drama named Chicago. Not so memorable is New York. In it a lonely shop girl goes grievously wrong. The manner of her going brought back to some more ancient listeners the flowery days of Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,-days when a properly seething villain chewed up at least one set of scenery every evening...