Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Downstairs (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When John Gilbert found that he had ceased to be a hero, he resolved to turn villain. The brilliance of his strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked out by Brent, who is then in a position to plant his prizewinning wheat. After the paralyzed winter, the long summer of sweat goes by. The wheat has been harvested when the local villain sets fire to the shocks. In putting out the fire. Barbara Stanwyck swoons. In carrying her back to the house, George Brent feels a rush of emotion, they are ready to settle down...
...whole U. S. When, in 1924, it was announced that "the terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business ethics," has been on the lookout for more ethical business heroes ever since...
With a nurse for its villain and two little Sussex girls for heroines. Authoress Kaye-Smith's Summer Holiday is less a novel than a thinly veiled autobiographical sketch. The story is dedicated to "Moira" the younger heroine, who with her dreamier sister Selina spends a blissful summer on a farm near Hastings, near Authoress Kaye-Smith's home town, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes...
Congress Dances is a new cinemusical type, noteworthy for its formality, charm, wit and innocence. It accents spectacle and pace, largely ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against...