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In It Happened One Night one could hear bloodhounds barking on the back trail of the fleeing heiress and the newspaper reporter ; headlines -baying a large reward for their return and hounds of the law snarling from police car radios.
Like escaped convicts or hunted animals the pugnacious heroine and her reporter escort were kept constantly aware of the nearness and imminence of capture and when consciousness of the hounds was sidetracked by temporary refuge, then suspense was hiked by prying, self-appointed representatives of the law. As it happened, everybody they met considered themselves directly and personally responsible for law enforcement ; as who doesn't at times.
From that moment on the night bus when the runaway heroine was recognized by a persistent masher and on through to the denouement, the audience was not allowed for more than a minute at the most to forget the yapping and sniffing of the hounds of law the nosiness of busybodies and the press.
What the two runaways were up against in the language of suspense-building, was delayed capture, much of which they were cleverly instrumental in causing.
Furtherance of both capture and escape was highly active. With capture deftly delayed, suspense was steadily heightened and with a minimum of mystery.
If the newlyweds in Bad Girl hadn't held out on each other that movie would have generated just about as much suspense as a bell ringing in a telephone exchange.
Intent upon making a living and providing a home for himself and his bride, troubled over the dwindling stake he had saved to start up in business, the young husband was too completely occupied to be aware of anything else. Wholly absorbed with the problem of keeping expenses down and making more money he seemed to her to be brutally insensitive to her pregnancy.
Because of her condition his preoccupation was easily translated into disappointment with her for having a child when they needed money so badly. So she withheld her secret; voiced her expectations to her girl friends, in fact, told everybody but her husband, the
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