The Film Daily (1935)

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THE Saturday, Dec. 7, 1935 R E VIEWS OF THE NEW FILMS » » "SHOW THEM NO MERCY" with Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Warren Hymer 20th Cenutry-Fox 75 mins. SUSPENSEFUL DRAMA BASED ON KIDNAPING RACKET WITH PUNCH IN ACTION AND EXCITEMENT. Fans who like tense drama will get a good stretch of it in this kidnaping yarn. It carries suspense from start to finish. The kidnaping part of the story is not elaborated upon in the least, but merely sets the opening groundwork for the campaign of the government men in tracking down the bad men. The main suspense centers on Rochelle Hudson and Edward Norris, a young couple with a baby, who unwittingly seek rainstorm shelter in an abandoned country house picked by the kidnapers for their hideaway. The toughest of the kidnapers, Bruce Cabot, is for bumping off the innocent trio right way, but Cesar Romero holds him off. The danger, however, continually hangs over the heads of the innocent intruders, who finally are saved with the arrival of the G-men. The cast does good work, with Cabot making a particularly hateful killer, and a terrier dog plays an interesting part in the story. Some comedy also is sprinkled along the route. Cast: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero. Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward Brcphy, Warren Hymer, Herbert Rawlinscn, Robert Gleckler, Charles C. Wilson, Frank Ccnrcy, Edythe Elliott, William Benedict, Orriri Burke, Booth Howard, Paul McVey Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck; Director, Gecrge Marshall; Author, Kubec Gasmen; Screenplay, Kubec Glasmon, Henry Lehrman; Cameraman, Bert Glenncn; Editor, Jack Murray. Direction, Very Good Photography, A-l. "MAN OF IRON" with Barton MacLane and Mary Astor Warner Bros. 61 mins. FAIR DRAMA OF AMBITIOUS MAN'S RISE FROM THE RANKS HOLDS MODERATE SATISFACTION FOR THE MALE TRADE. Basically a man's picture, dealing with the career of a steel worker who rises to the upper crust despite rival forces, this production makes fair entertainment of the he-man type. Principal interest is around Barton MacLane, who does a swell job in the title role. Upon being promoted to an important position, MacLane runs into trouble with John Eldredge, who wanted the job himself. Mary Astor, a secretary, works in cahoots with Eldredge to make things tough for MacLane, but the latter proves an able fighter and forges his way ahead and even up into the society ranks, thereby alienating his many friends among the workers. Finally, following an outbreak in the steel plant, MacLane is brought to his senses and made to see the error of his ambitious urge, whereupon he rejoins his real pals and workers. Though love interest is at a minimum, the yarn allows for a fair amount of comedy. Cast: Barton MacLane, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Craig Reynolds, John Qualen, Joseph Crehan, Dorothy Peterson, Joseph King, Florence Fair, Edward Keene, Joseph Sawyer. Producer, Bryan Foy; Director, William McGann; Author, Dawn Powell; Screenplay, William Wister Haines; Cameraman, L. W. jO'Connell; Editor, Terry Morse. Direction, Good Photography, Good "MISS PACIFIC FLEET with Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins Warner Bros. 66 mins. SCRAMBLED STORY OF GIMME-GALS AND THE NAVY HAS LAUGHS IN ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE YARN. This one is done in the style of the old slapstick comedies, and the plot is just about in that classification also. It depends its general excitement and humor. Hugh Herbert delivers the only adequate performance as the president of the local GoGetters Club who promotes a Popularity greatly on burlesqued scenes and noise for Blondell and Glenda Farrell are running a game of skill at a concession when they meet up with Allen Jenkins, the punchdrunk middle weight champ of the navy. Herbert stages a prizefight with Jenkins to meet the local champ, the winner to get 5,000 votes for his own candidate for Miss Pacific Fleet. Jenkins goes in to win for Joan Blondell, with Glenda Farrell steaming him up that the former has fallen for him. Jenkins takes an awful beating for several rounds, and does some good rough comedy with his semi-knockouts. He gets mad when he sees Blondell in a ringside seat making love to a rival gob, and wins the fight with a sledgehammer blow. And so on through a wild chase scene in motorboats, a kidnaping, and the winning votes coming in just as the big s?ala Contest is being decided, with Blondell winning. This is Herbert's picture in a walkaway, with Jenkins doing okay with his slapstick comedy. Cast: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Warren Hull, Eddie Acuff, Marie Wilson, Minna Gombell, Guinn Williams, Anita Kerry. Director, Raymond Enripht; Author, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan Screenplay, Lucille Newmark, Peter Milne; Editor, Clarence Kolster; Cameraman, Arthur Todd. Dierction, Fair Photography, Okay A "LITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS" By RALPH WILK "T)ARIO FARALLA, Paramount associate producer, is busy assembling his cast for "Border Flight," which will go before the cameras on Jan. 2. The picture will be directed by Ewing Scott, who also wrote the original story. T ▼ ▼ Bel Holmes will direct "The Farmer in the Dell" for RKO, with production scheduled to start Dec. 16. Sam Mintz and Johnny Grey are writing the screenplay based on the novel by Phil Stong, who also wrote "State Fair." r t ▼ Elsa Buchanan, London's "Peter Pan," will play a featured role in "Little Lord Fauntelroy." She was nicknamed "Peter" for her interpretation of the famous Barrie role. A newcomer to Hollywood, she has appeared in several of the year's important pictures — "Peter Ibbetson," "I Found Stella Parish" and "Sylvia Scarlett," which stars Katharine Hepburn. T ▼ ▼ Charles F. Riesner and his family are en route to London, where he will direct for Gaumont British. He was with M-G-M for eight years and directed such pictures as "Hollywood Revue," "Caught Short," "Reducing" and "Politics." T ▼ T "The Thrill of the Century," directed by Victor Halperin for Academy Pictures, will be released under the title of "I Conquer the Air." ▼ T T Frank McDonald is directing "Treachery Rides the Trail," for Warner Bros. Dick Foran is starred, with Paula Stone and Monte Blue among the featured players. Y Y ¥ The title of Victory Pictures' "Wanted Men" has been changed to "Fighting Coward." The next Victory production, "Face in the Fog," goes into work about Dec. 12. Y Y Y Our Passing Show: George Stevens returning from New York; Ber nie Fineman and Hy Daab, former FBO-ites, chatting on Gower St. Y Y ▼ Columbia has started active preparation on the next Grace Moore film, "Cissy," with music by Fritz Kreisler. Michael Bartlett will be leading man. Y Y Y Filming of "The Bohemian Girl," starring Stan Laurel and Oliver All-Continent G.T.E. Settlement Approved (Continued from Page 1) and the All-Continent Corp. dominated by William Fox under which the All-Continent claim for $2,300,000 is reduced to $600,000 and other controversies between the parties settled. All-Continent Corp. also is given title to 108,000 shares of Fox Film Corp. Class "A" stock (old), and 50,000 shares of the capital stock of Grandeur, Inc., as collateral for a note held against G.T.E. in the amount of $300,000. Florida Flickers Miami — Wometco Theaters, headed by Mitchell Wolfson and Sidney Meyer, has added one theater yearly since it started in 1924. The 1935 opening will be the New Lincoln, with Sonny Shepherd as manager. The Temple in Miami will be reopened in January with a stage show. Florida Theater, Daytona Beach, is reopening. Sidney Landers is manager. Under a court decision, Holly Nebraska Notes Lincoln, Neb. — The Opera House, Butte, is being opened by Brooke Tilsworth, former film salesman. Deciding to take the edge off the pre-Christmas slump, Frank Spahr closed the Fairmont, Fairmont, Dec. 1, and will not reopen until the first of the year. Jerry Zigmond, city manager of Lincoln Theater Corp. here, has been out of town for two days, nobody seems to know where. Warners Back "Sweet Aloes" Warners and A. L. Berman, attorney, are backing Lee Ephraim's forthcoming legit production, "Sweet Aloes." Josephine Hutchinson and Ruth Chatterton are mentioned as possibilities for the feminine lead. Dual Hungarian Bill "Vasember" ("The Iron Man") and "Beautiful Hungary," feature pictures, had their premiere at the Hunnia Playhouse yesterday. wood Theater, Hollywood, will continue under lease to the Sparks interests. Hardy, has been completed at the Hal Roach studios. James Home directed the picture, and Nathaniel Shilkret was musical supervisor. The supporting cast includes Jacqueline Wells, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Darla Hood and William P. Carleton. Y Y Y Joseph Cawthorn has been added to the cast of "The Great Ziegfeld," now in production at M-G-M under direction of Robert Z. Leonard. William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer are in it. T T T James Cagney will be starred by Warners in "Sergeant Murphy," story about the Grand National Steeplechase run annually in England. Y Y Y James Edward Grant, novelist, has been signed by RKO Radio to adapt "Volcano," original by Adele Buffington. Cliff Reid will be associate producer. ▼ T T Edward Everett Horton has been signed to a starring contract by Universal calling for two pictures over a period of one year. The same studio has bought International Team," polo story by Fred Van Wyck Mason, as a Jack Holt vehicle. T T T Margaret Sullavan will play the lead in "Strangers at the Feast" at Universal. Binnie Barnes will be in "Sutter's Gold."