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Dead End. (Starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea).
This is one of the most unusual pictures I had the good fortune of seeing during the last two years. It is a bold picture considered from the view point of the producer who generally caters for entertainment and doesn't want to take a risk. It certainly needs a brave producer like Sam. Goldwyn to produce a picture far out of the time worn and much abused rut and give the world something fresh, something new and something provocative. This is a picture that makes you think and think on strange lines. To the light-hearted it may provide a morbid entertainment but to the intelligent there is certainly both entertainment and instruction. Don't miss it if you are intelligent.
Sylvia Sidney has given a good performance. Bogart's performance was eloquent of the strange role he was playing. The slum boys were marvellous. Joel McCrea doesn't
do much, just because he hasn't much to do.
PATHE
"High Wide and Handsome".
(Starring Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott with Tamiroff, Hale and Bickford.) This is a story with oil behind it. The Director has failed to work up enough excitement. The supposed oil rush looks a
mere crawl. The beginning is rather tame and the picture proves immensely boring. It was stupid to waste a superb artiste like Irene Dunn on such a flimsy story. This star's wonderful poise was abused in several situations and she was made to dance like an overgrown school girl. Her performance looked rather unconvincing in the light of her work in "Magnificent Obsession". For no earthly reason a circus, with its full menagerie is introduced in the picture. The elephants are let loose in the picture. If the tigers had been set free we would have at least saved from the picture. The oil in the picture seemed to have been drunk by the thirsty elephants. Rather a bad picture for Paramount.
Mr. Jamshed J. Unwalla, Twentieth Century-Fox's new Publicity and Exploitation Manager for India.
REGAL*
"The Road Back". (With Richard Cromwell, Louise Fazenda, Summerville, Atwill and others.)
It is supposed to be a sequel to "All Quiet on the Western Front". The theme is bold and provocative and rather well worked out. There is a murder and a trial and these scenes are tense and exciting. The ending is unexpected and thrilling and you carry the picture with you after the show. It is a powerful drama, which has just failed to be vivid. EXCELSIOR**
"Secret Lives". (Starring: Brigitte Horney with Hamilton, Ivor Bernard & Others)
This is an unusual spy story introducing a new girl Brigitte, who gives a rattling good performance. There is a war atmosphere which makes several situations gripping. Pretty good entertainment I should call it.
CAPITOL
"That Certain Woman". (Starring: Bette Davis & Henry Fonda).
The versatile talents of Bette Davis are being framed in such type of subjects, which is rather unfortunate for the artiste. After "Dangerous" and "Marked Woman" Bette had enough with stories sprinkled heavily with sentimentalism. This is a mother-love affair and reminds you of a Kay Francis picture which I had seen but I can't re
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