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Raymond Massey is wasted in a thin role as head villain and Mammy Hattie McDaniel (also wasted) is dragged in by the car with the rest of the romantic accoutrements identified in Hollywood with the Old South...
...stage set was a homely scene: a shabby pine-board house, the decrepit tonneau of a model T. The hero was a cow hand; the heroine, a girl who dreamed of beauty parlors and city lights; the villain, her brother-a jazzing, hitchhiking kid home from the "Aggies." The music had no arias, but many a songful moment, underlined the action as plain people led simple lives, touched with bucolic dignity and rural nobility. Listed as a "music-play," A Tree on the Plains could well have been called folk opera...
Spoilers is renowned for its long, concluding brawl between villain and hero. The current version (Wayne v. Scott) is a beaut. It begins in Cherry's overstuffed quarters on the saloon's second floor, ranges round the balcony, down to the barroom, smashing everything in sight, continues out through the front window into the street. When it is finally over, Sourdough Harry Carey pulls the hero together and chides: "That's enough now; come...
...oldtime moviegoers like to recall. It set the pattern for future film brawls, became a pressagent's superlative for the ultimate in cinema scraps. It started small, but, according to Actor Farnum (still hale and hearty enough to undertake a small role in Version IV), it grew after Villain Santschi broke his nose on the first swing. Says Farnum...
...been presented in any of the productions near Harvard Square and is alone worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...