Word: waif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Angel (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding had too much respect for the story he had to tell, perhaps because he wrote it himself. It concerned a public prosecutor who befriends a pretty waif after he has caused her mother, a jolly old woman with bad connections, to be put in jail. Having befriended, he falls in love with her, kills a beer garden malefactor who mistreats her and is put on trial for murder. The waif gives the testimony which causes a jury to free...
...fair entertainment. Richard Arlen as "Pink" Barker turns his handsome profile often and to good advantage towards the camera. Robert Gleckler is adequate as Rogue Schultz. Fay Wray as Daisy is a bit too literate for a waif reared on an island where cultural advantages were few. Best shot: Diver Arlen meeting the cannibals...
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...Chicago, police hastened to rescue a waif wailing "MaMa" among some bushes. It was a large talking doll forgotten on a bush and being bumped about by the wind...
...compiled it by pasting up some of his old notices. He includes a jailbreak, an attempted suicide, a marriage triangle, a race-with-death in fast cars along a headland. The one real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar affectations, his habit of speaking lines of conversation as though he were reciting a Macaulay essay. Silliest shot: the champagne party in the local cabaret...