The Film Daily (1934)

Jay, Aug. 10,1934 REVIEWS « Diana Wynyard in "ONE MORE RIVER" i Frank Lawton, Colin Clive, Reginald nny, Mrs. Pat Campbell, Lionel Atwill i|/ersal. 85 mins. LASS DRAMA ON STRICTLY ADULT ,/IESTIC THEME IS VERY WELL ^IE ALL AROUND. lelegated to the more intelligent litele because of its theme, this pro irion is a consistently engrossing trile drama that has its moment of or as well as intensity. Locale is Engand the characters are all British. 1a Wynyard, running away from a cruel Isand, Colin Clive, meets Frank Lawon the boat from the Orient back to land. Lawton falls in love with her, but keeps him at a distance because she is a married woman. The husband follows, ks in on the wife and abuses her in. Then, realizing he can't get her k, he has her followed and divorces her circumstantial evidence of unfaithful, whereupon she realizes her love for ton. Among the most interesting pors of the film is the rather lengthy rce trial. Some deft comedy touches put in by Mrs. Pat Campbell, as la's aunt, and all the surrounding roles handled impressively, ast: Diana Wynyard, Frank Lawton, . Pat Campbell, Colin Clive, Reginald ny, C Aubrey Smith, Henry StephenLionel Atwill, Alan Mowbray, Kathleen vard, Gilbert Emery, E. E. Clive, Robert g, Gunnis Davis, Tempe Piggott. lirector, James Whale; Author, John worthy; Screen Play, R. C. Sheriff; neraman, John Mescall. (irection, Smooth. Photography, Fine. Bob Steele in "A DEMON FOR TROUBLE" with Don Alvarado, Gloria Shea and Nick Stuart n. Steiner 61 mins. JVELY WESTERN HAS PLENTY ACDN AND PLOT TWISTS TO INTEREST RILL FANS. rhis one is action-filled from start to sh and dovetailed satisfactorily enough. ) Steele turns down a hard-won job to ow a pretty girl to a nearby ranch. : agrees to put him to work, advising i to wait around. When a stranger walks who Bob thinks is the old foreman, gets into fight with him. Bob's opponent rts out to be a brother of the girl and i is ordered off the ranch. Nick Stuart, brother, sells the ranch and while en te to bank the money is murdered, cie witnesses the murder and later sees murderers split their loot with the it who bought the ranch. Steele is sus:ted of the murder, for he is seen leav the body. Fleeing a sheriff's posse, ele is befriended by a bandit, Don Alado. Together they manage to trick the ok into buying the sheriff's farm and s round up his confederates, and conce Gloria that Steele is not her brother's rderer. There are a number of amusing ches. last: Don Alvarado, Gloria Shea, Nick art, Walter McGrail, Carmen LaRoux, e McKee, Perry Murdock, Blackie liteford and Jimmy Aubrey. lirector, Bob Hill; Screen Play, Jack tteford; Recording Engineer, Herbert ke; Cameraman, Wm. Thompson; Film tor, Wm. Austin. Direction, Good. Photography, Okay. THE ■a&m DAILY WORDS and WISDOM "TT IS when we get down to actual regulation that the trouble starts, for there is nothing even remotely resemblihg an agreement as to what pictures should be." — WILL H. HAYS. "Writers, directors and producers all share equal responsibility for the condition of the screen today. The wholesale importation of the socalled sophisticated writers of the stage hasn't elevated our position any."— JOSEPH I. BREEN. "Another hopeful sign in the development of the motion picture is the recent tendency to deal honestly and realistically with important subject matter."— FRANCES WHITE DIEHL, National Council of Women. Hollywood has glorified the work of the man who has nothing to say." —KING VIDOR. "I like being a mug."— SPENCER TRACY. "The trouble with spotless films is that the public always finds some spot it prefers to a theater." — TED COOK. "I'm bad copy because I'm a normal guy who wants to live in a normal manner."— ROBERT YOUNG. "The question is: What constitutes bad taste?"— HAROLD B. FRANKLIN. "Even where double-featuring prevails the big majority doesn't want it but can't quit because of competitive conditions."— ED KUYKENDALL. "Wives are beaten before they start in Hollywood."— OTTO KRUGER. "Many of the books that are classics today would be quickly branded as indecent if they were put on the screen."— WILL IRWIN. "I have made 60 pictures and only two of them have not made money." —CECIL B. DE MILLE. "Nobody was more surprised than I when I was chosen as a potential Hollywood beauty."— MARGARET SULLAVAN. «DATE BOOK » Aug. 1-24: Second International Exposition of Cinematographic Art, Venice, Italy. Aug. 14: Public hearings on proposed amendments to the Laboratory Code. Washington, D. C. Aug. 21 : Annual Outing of Detroit film row under auspices of Detroit Variety Club, Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, Detroit. Aug. 22-24: Allied Theater Owners of New Jersey convention, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Atlantic City. Aug. 23: First Golf Tournament of Cleveland Variety Club, Beechmont Club, Cleveland. Sept. 10: First fall luncheon meeting of Variety Club of Cleveland. Sept 14: Clambake, Golf and Dinner-Dance of Cleveland Variety Club, Cleveland Sept. 16: North Dakota Allied meeting, Mandan, N. D. Sept. 20: A.M P.A. Revels and Luncheon, Motion Picture Club, New York. Sept. 20: "Night of Stars" benefit under auspices of United Jewish Appeal in aid of German Jews, Yankee Stadium, New York. Nathan Burkan, chairman. Sept. 26-27: Annual convention of Allied Independent Theater Owners of Wisconsin, Hotel Schroeder, Milwaukee. Oct. 1: National Film Carriers convention Detroit. Oct 14-15: Annual convention of M.P.T.O. of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee (Tri-State), Memphis. Oct. 29: S.M.P.E. Fall Meeting Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Jack P. Moore Quits Fox Midwest Springfield, Mo. — Jack P. Moore has resigned as manager of the three Fox Midwest theaters here. He is said to have gone to San Antonio. 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