Word: villainous
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When Fredric March takes three drops of medicine in a glass of water, admirers who saw him in his last picture will be momentarily afraid lest he turn into Mr. Hyde. Luckily nothing of the sort occurs. He is a rich villain named Arthur Drake and he is taking strong medicine for a weak heart. The heart is weaker than the medicine is strong, so presently Arthur Drake topples over dead. His disinherited twin brother (also Fredric March in double exposure), who happens to be present, sees the possibilities of this situation. He quickly exchanges clothes with the corpse...
Shanghai Express (Paramount). The scene wherein the heroine feels called upon to sacrifice her honor to the villain in order to save the man she loves has occurred so frequently in the cinema that it can be regarded as a more rigid pillar of the industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing, an unsuccessful suitor for Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick a job but put Susan in a dangerous spot by sending him to a distant factory and keeping him there. Susan successfully repulsed Villain Bulgin's ponderous advances but gradually fell...
...regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about a girl who loses $20,000 gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece. Her husband gives her money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions of the picture-one with Sessue Hayakawa and one with Pola Negri-this was the moment for the big scene where the heroine...
...noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates the Malay wilds to find and be reconciled with her husband (Charles Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled by a combination of circumstances which includes the eruption of a volcano whose streams of lava overflow the palace. Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, thoroughly reconciled, escape...