The Film Daily (1935)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

—J&W DAILY Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1935 « « REVIEWS OF THE NEW FILMS » » "$1,000 A MINUTE" with Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) Republic 72 mins. TOPNOTCH AUDIENCE NUMBER WITH NEAT STORY, STRONG CAST, SNAPPY DIRECTION AND CLASSY PRODUCTION. An interesting none-too obvious plot that is different from the usual thing, clever lines, fast and sure direction, a lot of action, plus a peach of a cast, especially of comedians, makes this comedy drama a swell piece of entertainment. The story by Everett Freeman with adaptation by Jack Natteford and Clair Church and screenplay by Joseph Fields contains plenty of story and clever dialogue, and Aubrey Scotto has directed it in such a manner as never to allow a dull moment. Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edgar Kennedy, Herman Bing, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Purnell Pratt and Morgan Wallace carry the major roles and they all do grand work. The dog cannot be slighted, for his antics with Edward Brophy stand out. The production is very well mounted, showing as much class as is shown in a lot of major features. This picture will give your customers plenty of laughs and should go over with any type of audience. It all concerns Roger Pryor a newspaperman who has to spend $120,000 within 12 hours. To see that he does this in a regular sort of way, the bettors have Edward Brophy accompany Pryor on his spending spree. Because of his knowledge of a robbery, the police are on his tail. All this allows for a lot of happenings, clever talk, many laughs and plenty of action. He accomplishes the job and also gets his girl friend. Cast: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edgar Kennedy, Purnell Pratt, William Austin, Herman Bing, George Hayes, Russell Hicks, Spencer Charters, Ian Wolfe, Harry C. Bradley, Fred Malatesta, Edward Brophy, Morgan Wallace, Sterling Hclloway, Arthur Hoyt, Franklin Pangborn, Claude King, Lee Phelps, James Burtis, Fern Emmett, Rolf Sedan, Prince. Producer, Nat Levine; Director, Aubrey Scotto; Author, Everett Freeman; Screenplay, Joseph Fields, Jack Natteford, Clair Church; Cameramen, Ernest Miller, Jack Marta; Editor Ray Curtiss. Direction, Brisk. Photography, A-l. Harry Carey in "WILD MUSTANG" William Berke 61 mins. ACCEPTABLE WESTERN AMPLY PACKED WITH THE REGULATION INGREDIENTS AND FAMILIAR OUTDOOR ACTION. Bolstered by plenty of the approved plot material, this western drama ought to prove generally satisfying to the outdoor action fans. Harry Carey, as a retired sheriff who won the sobriquet of "Wild Mustang" because of his success in tracking down bad men, is induced back into harness when a notorious trio break out of jail and proceed to terrorize the countryside. Among the victims of the gang, which brands its captives and then lets them loose as a gesture of mockery against the authorities, is Carey's son. By the use of decoys, including the son, Carey gets on the trail of the outlaws and overtakes them after they have pulled a raid on a town, and although falling temporarily in their clutches the sheriff eventually brings the gang to justice. Then comes the culmination of a dual romance, one involving the son and the other taking in the sheriff himself. Cast: Harry Carey, Barbara Fritchie, Del Gordon, Cathryn Johns, Robert Kortman, George Chesebro, Chuck Morrison, Richard Bottilier, George Morrell, Milton Moranti. Producer, William Berke; Director, Harry Fraser; Author, Munroe Talbot; Screenplay, Weston Edwards; Cameraman, Robert Cline; Editor, Arthur A. Brocks. Direction, Satisfactory. Photography, Okay "TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL" with Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Leslie Banks GB Pictures 94 mins. IMPRESSIVE SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION COMBINES GREAT DRAMATIC PUNCH WITH EMOTIONAL HUMAN DRAMA. Easily the most pretentious and worthwhile production in the dramatic field ever to come from the British studios. The film has fine tempo, and the imaginative and daring theme of a transatlantic tunnel projected into the years to come is done so skillfully and with such detailed thoroughness and technical cunning that you feel as you watch the screen that such a tunnel is actually in existence and being built before your eyes. This effect of realism has seldom been approached in any spectacular production we can recall, and certainly in no other imaginative conception. The brief space here allotted will not permit doing justice to this fine achievement of the Gaumont British studio. Suffice it to say that the tense and gripping drama of the underseas tunnel construction and the near-tragedy and failure of the project grips you tremendously. This physical struggle of the engineers with their problem and the danger to the workers forms the main theme, with a very fine human struggle going on between Dix, the engineer, and his wife who is left alone in London as he fights to complete his tremendous task. The production skill in all departments is unmatched, and here is a picture that the British can feel proud of. It has a universal appeal, especially to Americans and British because of the joining together of the two nations through the tunnel's completion. Cast: Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, C. Aubrey Smith, Basil Sydney, Henry Oscar, Hilda Trevelyan, Cyril Raymond, Jimmy Hanley, Walter Huston, George Arliss. Director, Maurice Elvey; Author, B. Kellermann; Screenplay, Kurt Siodmak; Dialogue, L. du Garde Peach, Clemence Dane; Editor, Charles Frend; Cameraman, G. Krampf. Direction, Excellent. Photograph, The Best. "VALLEY OF WANTED MEN" with Frankie Darro and Roy Mason (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) Maurice Conn 63 mins. GOOD ACTION ENTERTAINMENT WITH FAST-MOVING STORY AND EXCELLENT CAST. An especially good cast in an interesting Peter B. Kyne story should put this picture over with the action and outdoor fans. There is plenty doing from the start, which is a jail break, until the end when Roy Mason clears himself of being involved in the bank robbery for which he has been serving time. Mason and Frankie Darro do some swell work, and Russell Hopton and Paul Fix are excellent. Frank Rice comes in for some well placed comedy spots and two song numbers are nicely set. The jail break, bang-up fist fights and gun battles keep things at a high pitch. Most of the action takes place out of doors and the locations were well chosen. A jail break takes place with Mason, Hopton and Fix getting away. Mason is out to prove to his sweetheart, Drue Leyton, that he was not implicated in the bank robbery but was ' railroaded there by Walter Miller. The other two want Miller to collect for pulling the job. With the help of Darro and Drue, after a gun battle in which Hopton, Fix and Miller are killed, Mason proves his innocence and regains his sweetheart. Cast: Frankie Darro, Roy Mason, Russell Hopton, Grant Withers, Drue Leytcn, Walter Miller, Paul Fix, Sncwflake, Al Bridges, Frank Rice, Jack Rockwell, William Gould. Producer, Maurice Conn; Director, Alan James; Author, Peter B. Kyne (from story "All for Lcve"); Screenplay, Barry Barnnger, Forrest Barnes; Songs, Chantelle and Duhig; Cameraman, Arthur Reed; Editor, Richard G. Wray. Direction, Good. Photography, Good." FOREIGN "LE DERNIER MILLIARDAIRE" ("The Last Millionaire"), in French, with English titles; directed by Rene Clair; distributed by France Films. Rene Clair's latest production is a jolly satire that contains an enormous amount of enjoyment for French fans and, with the aid of its English titles for the American release version, ought to please a fairly large audience over here as well. The whole affair is more or less fun-poking at wealth and the idea motivating the action has to do with a French millionaire who is enticed to a beautiful but bankrupt kingdom where he is promised a charming princess as wife in return for his financial support. The young girl, however, doesn't relish the idea of being sold in this way, and the millionaire in turn becomes balky when it appears he is going to be hooked by an elderly dowager instead of the younger damsel. Further complications arise when the rich man is reported to have been cleaned out by business reverses, but all matters are eventually straightened out for an acceptable finale. The story moves along at a fairly fast pace, and Clair has resorted to much effective though sometimes broad travesty in order to put across his points. Camera work also is particularly interesting, and the cast selected to portray the story is sufficiently immersed in the spirit of the thing. "RED ARMY DAYS", in Russian, with English titles; produced by Lenfilm; directed by A. Zharky and Joseph Heifets; with N. Simonof, Melnikof, et al. Distributed by Amkino. At the Cameo Theater. Moderately pleasing romantic comedy in Russian army background, with romance playing an ample part amid the military demonstrations. "PANTOFFELHELDEN" ("Henpecked Husbands"), in German; produced by D. L. S.; directed by Fred Sauer; with Weiss Ferdl, Kaethe Haack, et al. At the 86th St. Casino Theater. Highly amusing comedy about a henpecked husband who employs a funny ruse for a temporary respite from his bossy wife. SHORTS "Hey Diddle Diddle" (Paul Terry-Toon) Educational 7 mins. Lively Cartoon A compilation of the good old nursery rhymes, showing the Old Lady who lived in a shoe, the characters in "Hey Diddle Diddle"— the cow, the cat and the fiddle, the dish and the spoon — Jack and Jill, and many more nursery favorites. Mary's lamb is left out of school in the Old Woman's shoe, and inside the old lady as the schoolma'am is putting the class through a modern idea of education, with plenty of syncopation and harmony. Mary's lamb announces the arrival of the three prim ladies of the School Board, but they go for the hot-cha education, too, and it winds up with all hands doing a tap dance. Frank Luther in "Hillbilly Love" (Song and Comedy Hit) Educational 10 mins. Mountaineer Capers A skit in the Kentucky mountains, with the Range Ramblers and the Eight Serenaders representing rival mountaineer factions. The daughter of one leader is scheduled to be married to the son of the other faction head, so they all meet in the cabin with the minister officiating. Plenty of harmony is supplied by the two rival bands, and some fine vocal work by Frank Luther. Winds up in a typical mountaineer freefor-all as one of the boys plays a practical joke with some loaded cigars. Produced by Al Christie. Directed by William Watson. Story by Arthur Jarrett. Tom Howard and George Shelton in "He's A Prince" (Coronet Comedy) Educational 18 mins. Goofy Laffs The two comics, Howard and Shelton, run a theatrical agency, and hire themselves out to the same party, Howard being engaged to act as a prince of royalty by the ambitious hostess, while Shelton is engaged to put the prince out of business by a rival political faction to the real prince. The proceedings are very hectic, and the comedians succeed in scoring a good percentage of laughs in the course of the goofy doings. Produced by Al Christie. Story by Charlie Williams and Marcy Klauber.