Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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r \, CERTAIN YOUNG MAN 'T'HE less said about this the better. It's a picture made two years ago in a moment of poor judgment, and it's been on the shelf all this time, waiting for someone to get up the courage to bring it to light. The pity is that anyone ever did. All who like Ramon Novarro are advised to stay away, to avoid feeling unduly indignant about the stories handed out to Ramon. He should be romantic and intense and sincere — but never the dashing, cynical Beau Brnmmel. The story is about a blase young man who is pursued relentlessly by his cast-off ladies. On a fishing trip he meets another pretty girl. But this one is the wholesome type, and in a gesture of renunciation he »y his monocle, and asks her ,.d"rrr~rnn iad in this if ^ou're an easy giggler, and Mapetsfine Day looks yi&iq-. THE COP JT'S the open season for crook plays, without a doubt. This one is better than most. It all comes about because William Boyd befriends a wounded crook, who promptly runs off with his money and overcoat. Bill can hardly wait to get on the police force after that, and how he finally gets his man is worked out in a way that can't fail to interest you. There's humor in this, and lots of atmosphere, and one of those carefully planned robberies that make you sick with nervousness for fear everything isn't going off as the master mind expected. This master mind is played exceptionally well by Robert Armstrong. And Bill Boyd is awfully cute as the new, and dumb, cop. Alan Hale, Dan Wolheim, and Jacqueline Logan are also in the cast, and they all looked pretty good to me. You can -'Si&t'fj Jv?5 this one. THE BIG KILLING A NOTHER comedy featuring those two incorrigibles, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The best part of the picture is the mountaineer sequence, before the so-called laughs begin. The story is of a couple of families in the Ozark mountains who long to wipe each other out, chiefly because the daughter of one house and the son of the other are in love. The boy's family is hopelessly outnumbered, so they hire a couple of sharpshooters from the county fair, to come out and practise on the enemy. You can imagine what a help our comic boy-friends would be. Through no fault of theirs the war is finally ended and Love is triumphant. This has a very swell cast, including Lane Chandler, Gardner James, and Paul McAllister. Mary Brian is the girl, and she's improving. A ray of hope comes with the rumor that producers are beginning to think comedy teams are a mistake. 60 LILAC TIME yHE romance of a little French girl and one of the seven aviators billeted at her house during the war. It has a nice atmosphere, and a simple story. He goes off to battle and escapes death by a miracle, she is driven from her home, and finally, after much despair and suffering, they find each other again. Colleen Moore as a French peasant girl is not convincing, but she's cute. There is some excellent comedy, and this is what Colleen knows how to do. She falls down in the love scenes, which might have been very very romantic. But her fans won't mind. The picture is made interesting by some beautiful and exciting shots of an air battle, and other aeronautical feats. It is reminiscent of "The Legion of the Condemned," though not so well handled. Gary Cooper plays in his usual stern, unbending manner. I kept thinking what a lovely romance this might have been, in other hands.