Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Montana Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Equipped with dull and naively vulgar dialog Montana Moon is a retake, admirably photographed, of the sort of picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading...
...regret that the financial position I inherited [i.e.] from Churchill does not permit me''?but he got no further at the moment. Conservatives cried, "Shame, shame! That was vulgar, Snowden! Shame! Vulgar...
Eugenie Leontovich in the part of a pseudo-Baroness is both vivacious and amusing. Moreover, when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy...
...constitute, except by a poetic extension of the term, our 'national culture.' Our national culture, like that of every other country, is composed of the best artistic writing we produce, the best sculpture, music, etc. The rest is not 'debased art' at all: it is vulgar entertainment for the great majority who have a natural (and therefore perfectly sensible) desire to be entertained vulgarly...
Authors Ernst & Lorentz list shots and captions liable to be cut: portrayal of crime or suicide; display of dangerous weapons; cruelty, mean or mischievous; capital punishment; gambling; profanity, lip or title; drinking; narcotics; sex, suggestiveness or overpassionate love making; nudity and indecent exposure; vulgar dancing; improper reference to women...