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...service of an English earl, Roland Young, to become the manservant of the American, Charles Ruggles, he is convincing and often amusing. His adventures in America and the slow transition these effect upon his character and personality comprise the plot of the story. For once he is not the villain, but the hero, and is successful in the role...
After Office Hours (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When she enters the combined boathouse, garage, workshop, countryseat and rendezvous maintained by the villain of this picture, Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett) is favorably impressed. She casts a glance at her surroundings and says to her host: "Nice, nice, nice...
This odd locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high...
...rest of the bill is names--Baker, Beetle, Bottle--and they all disappoint. Merely seeing Bottle in a box destroys a beautiful illusion of a deep-dyed villain; also his voice has lost its rasping note. Baker plays an accordion with finesse, even attempting the "Bolero," but his humor has lost its punch. This reviewer may never again appreciate the trio, even on the air, which is a loss to the ham industry. There is also a clever marionette show, which kindly raises the curtain so that the audience may at last see how the intricate system of wires manage...
...business separately but their partnership still continues. The first time Gato sees Malibu he prepares to kill him, then recognizes his old crony and shares a drink with him. Both remain attached to Miss Parker. When his mate is killed, Malibu leaves their fawn with her to rear. The villain of Sequoia is a surly poacher named Bergman. When Bergman traps a herd of deer, Malibu shows them how to jump out of the corral. Bergman stalks Malibu and Gato stalks Bergman. Sequoia ends when Gato claws Bergman into a semicoma and Malibu butts him off a cliff...