Motion Picture Reviews (1933)

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Motion Picture Reviews Eleven SCARLET RIVER » » Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson. Direction by Otto Brower. R.K.O. This is most amusing. It is a Western that is actually a takeoff on Westerns. The hero is a motion picture cowboy who temporarily deserts films for the real thing and ends up playing the leading part in a love story. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Excellent Good •sr THE VAMPIRE BAT » » Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglass, Lionel Atwill. Direction by Frank Strager. Majestic Picture, Goldstein production. (Seen in theatre preview. ) The story opens with the villagers gathered together to discuss the strange deaths which have recently occured in their community. The true explanation is divulged after several harrowing sequences, and, following the fashion of a number of previous mystery stories, is found to be dependent upon the preverted fancy of a maniac. We should think few people would willingly subject themselves to such ghastly entertainment. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 No Absolutely not •w WHEN STRANGERS MARRY » » Jack Holt, Lillian Bond. Direction by Clarence Badger. Columbia. It is incredible that anyone could find this picture entertaining. The heroine, an adult enfant terrible rampant in a Paris cafe is spanked by a perfect stranger, marries him while in a drunken stupor and follows him to a tropical jungle. Grown peevish when her husband neglects her for bridge building, she plans to elope but shoots the villain instead and flies to her husbad’s lap to be spanked again. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Impossible No yr THE WOMAN ACCUSED » » Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel. Direction by Paul Sloane. Paramount-Publix. This is a thoroughly sensational and vicious picture! In spite of the ten collaborating authors, we maintain that it is neither current nor acceptable morality for a girl to murder a former lover. Nor do we accept as probable, or heroic, the conduct of the new lover who saves her from prosecution by horsewhipping a witness into giving false testimony. The glamour of the settings and the innocent seeming Nancy Carroll make the total lack of ethical standards all the more insidious. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Pernicious Bad SHORT SUBJECT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO » » First of a series which will take the spectator through the various missions of California. The photography is beautiful and the subject matter interesting. Family.