Word: villainizing
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...John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore). The plot is from Molnar's play Liliom. The Austrian hero lived on the largesse of women, stole their greatest treasures, beat them with sticks and fists. But they still loved him with ardor. His mistress (Gertrude Short) deserted him for the villain, buc decided she had made a bad second choice. Jealous the villain tries to kill the hero with a nasty gila monster but fails. Good cast, poor acting, fair entertainment...
...circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard in his way as was Captain Flagg of What Price Glory, the model hero-villain of all Park Row War fiction. Only, unfortunately, he is a dull blackguard, subject to long states of his author's laboring mind. Similarly Anthony Hale, the noble cousin: his silence is not eloquent...
After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...dramatic substance is even shoddier. Villain Inventor chases Mary up a roof, intent upon dashing her to earth, in the manner of spiteful evildoers since Desperate Desmond. The hero pursues. During the struggle, Capitalist Masterman swears if the hero (his son) be spared, he will henceforth treat all workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency...
Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...