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First, the Champ's background: Tourists and habitues in the gambling resort were by their presence there alone manifestly supporting the Champ's worst enemy, liquor and dice, enhancing the lure of the racetrack, the bar and crap tables.
Thus two conflicts raged in the picture and the outcome of the Champ's struggle with the Demon Rum and the cackling ivories would decide the outcome of the competition for the boy's affections. However, the Champ's struggle with the "twin evils" was so bungling and pathetic, he was so out of training, so flabby, heavy-footed and slow, reaction was overwhelmingly sympathetic, suspense in that quarter lightening in direct ratio to his condition.
Because the Champ was obviously licked before he began his fight the mother's pursuit looked like an easy winner. And the gambling resort, the tourists and habitues, colorful and exciting, the atmosphere, gala and happy, and the boy's lively prospects of owning and racing a horse of his own further made the mother's promises of something better a weak contender.
If the mother had produced one or two of the things dear to a boy's heart, had given the holiday atmosphere of the gambling resort a little competition, there might have been a contest; but what she offered was in dialog, an inducement in the abstract, "just a lot of talk" as far as kids are concerned.
True there was some emphasis on evil surroundings, but the evil in a gambling resort, Lady Luck presiding, escape from humdrum, is wide open to question.
In reviewing the movies it is well to keep in mind that the presence of things enhance and accentuate appeal and non-appeal so clearly and unmistakably that any question regarding apppeal or non-appeal is automatically out of order. On the other hand dialog can lessen the non-appeal of things absent.
In The Three Smart Girls the fortune hunting siren was young, alluring and present, while the girls' mother was aging, unalluring and absent.
Absence of the mother actually enhanced her appeal and therefore the appeal in the girls' quest, while her presence might have detracted.
In fact dialog was considered so ineffectual the
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