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...good name to the full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture who abandons her husband Mike for his first mate, might be an excellent actress if she would forget the Garbeled virgin of drama...
Tiger Shark (Warner Bros.) is a bloody cinema of tuna fishing in trawlers out of Southern California's San Diego. Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into...
...sharks' sinister grey shadows beneath the surface. The tuna are the composite hero throughout, the sharks the composite villain. The sharks "settle everything," tumble drowning fishermen, end love triangles, horrify audiences. Robinson writhes and mouths his lines in an effective, fat facsimile of Lionel Barrymore's acting. Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan, is a convincing emotionalist, serious and big-eyed...
...Griffith). Director David Wark Griffith knew the patois of the cinema 15 years ago, but with his Abraham Lincoln of last year he revealed that he has not bothered to keep up with the times. The Struggle, written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, acted by Hal Skelly and Zita Johann, is a shiftless and pitiably stupid homily which, esthetically and financially, should be an embarrassment to all concerned. Its story-of a steel-worker who takes to tippling and ends up with a case of delirium tremens in a thunderstorm-is really no story at all. The dialog...
...Archduke Otto of Hungary disappeared from Steenockerzeel Castle in Belgium. All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne. They received nothing but spluttering denials. Eventually Otto and his mother, the ex-Empress Zita, were discovered in Switzerland...