Word: wolheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...
...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...
...plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied...
...persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...Racket (Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost)-The best of the liquor and lawlessness films...