Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE (United Artists)— Doug Fairbanks as a wealth} chap who goes to live on a desert island for a bet. Very good for everybody. Reviewed in detail on page 49. MOVIE CRAZY (Paramount) — Why doesn't Harold Lloyd make more pictures ? This is grand — very funny and refreshingly clean. Constance Cummings is good. Excellent — perfect for the kids. MY PAL THE KING (Universal)— Tom Mix and Tony let loose in a mythical country. Very good — especially for the kids. Reviewed in detail on page 50. NEW MORALS FOR OLD (M-G-M) — The second generation crops again, in the persons of Robert Young and Margaret Perry, to do battle with the older generation as impersonated delightfully by Lewis Stone and Laura Hope Crewes. Good — there's a lesson in it for the young folks. NIGHT MAYOR (Columbia)— Lee Tracy. Evalyn Knapp and Don Dilloway in a story supposedly based upon a famous political figure now in the limelight. Excellent — children won't be especially interested. Reviewed in detail on page 50. OKAY AMERICA (Universal)— Lew Ayres goes Walter Winchell. Very good — some of it will amuse the children. Reviewed in detail on page i 49. THE OLD DARK HOUSE (Universal)— Mysteryhorror thriller. There's a big — and excellent cast which includes Boris Karloff. Good — better not take very young children although the older ones might safely be allowed to see it. ONCE IN A LIFETIME (Universal)— Sidney Fox, Jack Oakie, Aline MacMahon in comedy with Hollywood background. Excellent — okay for kids. Reviewed in detail on page 49. ONE HOUR WITH YOU (Paramount)— Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, with Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles and Roland Young in the supporting cast. Gay, light-hearted and frothy — and some nice tunes. Excellent — but the children would be bored. PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Roach-M-G-M) — Laurel and Hardy go feature length again. This time in something or other about adopting a couple of kids. Fair— okay for children. Reviewed in detail on page 50. PROSPERITY (M-G-M)— Marie Dressier and Polly Moran are friendly enemies again. Marie gets the civic betterment bug in this one. Anita Page and Wallace Ford supply the love interest. Excellent— by all means take the children. THE PURCHASE PRICE (First National) — A night club dancer, trying to escape her past, marries a stern son of the soil. In other words, Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, playing characters from vastly different modes of life, try to find romance. Eventually, they do, but not until they have suffered many trials and tribulations. Good — parts of it may prove amusing to the kids. RADIO PATROL (Universal) — AH about the policemen who chase around after crime in their little radio cars. Very exciting. Robert Armstrong. James Gleason and Lila Lee are in it. Good — fine for the children. RAIN (United Artists) — Joan Crawford is superb as Sadie Thompson. So is Walter Huston as the hypocritical Reverend Davidson. And a splendid cast adds to this picture's merit — William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Matt Moore and Beulah Bondi. Excellent — but don't take the children. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (Fox)— Well it's awfully sentimental. But somehow we think a great many people who have read this children's classic and have seen Mary Pickford in the silent version won't mind the sentimentality. Marian Nixon is a winsome Rebecca. And Ralph Bellamy is most attractive as the doctor. The two aunts are played delightfully by Mae Marsh and Louise Closser Hale. Excellent — children, particularly little girls, will be crazy about it. RED HEADED WOMAN (M-G-M)— Jean Harlow does the finest work of her career as Lil Andrews, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who makes up her mind to "get somewhere in this world." She does! And if her means are sometimes more foul than fair, let's give Jean great credit for her relentlessly realistic interpretation of Lil. Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Lewis Stone and Leila Hyams are also in it. Excellent — but send the children to some other picture. THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US (Warners) — Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Bette Davis and a capable cast. The story is about a woman who remains a devoted friend of her husband even after she has divorced him. A nice sophisticated play. Good — but too "talkie" for the children. ROADHOUSE MURDER (Radio)— Dorothy Jordan and Eric Linden in a thrilling film about a young newspaper man who is so eager to get real news that he almost has a murder charge against him. Perhaps a bit unconvincing in spots, but exciting just the same. Good — all right for the children. ROAR OF THE DRAGON (Radio)— We've seldom seen a more beautiful girl than Gwili Andre. As for her acting — well, we won't judge her on one picture. Richard Dix is his usual attractive self. Good — boys will enjoy the action scenes, of which there are many. 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