Word: villainous
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...Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts, is always attractive scenery. The fact that she can act with the best of a strong cast does not weaken the film. Sydney Green Street, hugely imposing, is the perfect villain of the piece. To say that he plays a large part in its success is not a redundancy...
...ironically enough, with Sam Houston appearing out of the clouds, and orating wildly with a lush New England accent. That'll give you a rough idea of what goes on for an hour and a quarter, Texas Standard Time. Broderick Crawford manages to portray a refreshingly different sort of villain, but aside from that--well, Houston had the right idea...
...played in twelve flops in 18 months, quit to try radio. He was an announcer on a small local station when TIME discovered him. In 1932 he married Constance McKay, whom he had met when she was the heroine of a Broadway play in which he was the villain. They have an eight-year-old daughter, Nancy...
...timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have helped immeasurably...
...Girl," is an improvement on the feature. Mixing some really tense melodrama with Eddie Bracken's best, it comes through with a story that keeps the audience moderately jittery for nearly an hour. Two murders on a college campus are the basis for this murder mystery which conceals the villain's identity in the best Nick Carter style, while befuddling the audience with slapstick. Neither picture will be accused of belonging to the year's top ten, and they aren't too far from the bottom...