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NIGHT WORK (Pathi)
A PLEASANT-ENOUGH linle farce comedy which gives one Eddie Quillan the chance co make a lot of funny faces and at the same time be the sympathetic hero.
He gets all mixed up with an Orphan's Home baby and, quite innocently, finds himself forced to pay for the baby's upbringing because the Orphan's Home executive thinks Eddie is a rich man.
Then Eddie goes to work in a night-club in order to make enough money to bring up little Oscar the way a good child should be brought up.
If you like Quillan you will like this show.
FOR THE DEFENSE (Paramount)
HERE'S something of a new angle in racketeering and gangster pictures. It's all about the criminal lawyer who protects the gangsters when they get hailed to court, and William Powell plays the lawyer with his customary brilliance.
Kay Francis plays the girl whom Powell loves but whom he will not marry because he doesn't want to be tied up or tied down, whichever it is.
It is, of course, through his love for Kay that Bill gets into the grand mess of his court career. And, also of course, it is through Kay's love for him that she tried to save him. This is a good one and delightfully different. Don't miss it.
WAY OUT WEST (M-G-M)
WISECRACKING Bill is with us again, this, time in a story of the great open spaces where men are meanies. At least, they are in this story.'
Bill, officially known as William Haines, plays a wicked gambler who fleeces the dumb cowboys of all they possess. But when they find it out, whoopee!
Along comes the girl, of course. And then a series of misunderstandings and phony situations which make it look as if Bill has stolen the girl's honor when all the time he was protecting her from a rattle-snake. A real one, not a tough hombre. This is not quite up to the Bill Haines standard.
SHOOTING STRAIGHT (RKO)
RICHARD DIX is with us again. This time as a wicked gambler who kills a man and then, by a process known as mistaken identity, hides away in a smalf town and actually becomes interested in the community's church and social affairs. Honestly, the movies —
He falls for a pretty girl and she for him. The girl's brother gets himself signed to an I.O.U. for $6500 to the local gambling chief, although why a young boy would be foolish enough to play in a big game only God and RKO know. But everything comes out all right. If you're a Dix fan, you can gamble on this.
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