The Movies ... and the People Who Make Them (1939)

"The MOVIES • • • • 1939" house for two weeks. Her ordeal over, Susan celebrates her release by borrowing her father’s car with Linda and bumping into another driven by young Don Martin and pal Jerry. The boys fix the fender, but eagle-eyed Mr. Wesley notices the marks and demands an explanation. T he result is another order forbidding Susan to see Don again. But young love can not be denied and she sees him anyway. He too has parent trouble and eventually, spurred on by parental antagonism, they elope. The marriage is annulled. Young Don, desperate to see Susan, breaks into the Wesley home and wins himself a reform school sentence. He promptly escapes, finds Susan, and the two of them try to run away. When Don is again in court, Linda’s mother — a brilliant lawyer and the film’s contrasting up-to-date parent — defends him by denouncing the old-fashioned parents. The judge accepts her view and expounds it so thoroughly that Mr. Wesley repents his sternness. Don gets a suspended sentence on condition he and Susan wait a year for marriage and everyone is very happy. Jean Parker and Johnny Downs make an appealing but not particularly forceful young couple. Henry Kolker and Virginia Brissac play their respective parents with dutiful, uncompromising decision. Produced with standard studio competence on a modest budget, it promises moderate entertainment of its type. hides the money in a portable radio in the Drummond flat. The police take him away for observation and Phyllis departs for Prance leaving an ultimatum: she will marry a “Mr. Aldergate” unless Captain Hugh comes through with a wedding. She has forgotten the radio and Hugh sends it or. to her. Then, deducing that the money must be in it, he hurries to France. The situation is neatly set for a combination climax of crime and wedding. Armides escapes and crosses the Channel for the cash. Meanwhile the long-suffering Col. Neilson of Scotland Ya;d has had Hugh arrested. The French mayor is a gallant fellow who determines to help Phyllis get her man by performing the marriage himself. Then Armides gets the radio and departs over the rooftops. Hugh chases him and the mayor and his party chase Hugh. Armides meets a just fate and Phyllis becomes Mrs. Drummond. The next in the series will probably explain how much of the honeymoon she has before her husband is deep in another mystery. The cast is familiar right down to the new villain, who is played with lively gusto by that experienced screen menace, Eduardo Ciannelli. John Howard is again a dashing Captain Hugh, Heather Angel a fetching Phyllis, H. B. Warner an exasperated Col. Nielson, Reginald Denny an antic Algy and E. E. Clive a lugubrious Tenny. They all have evolved a bantering manner which keeps these Drummond films in focus as tall tales of adventure. Bulldog Drummond’s Bride is an average addition. HELL’S KITCHEN: Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Director: Lewis Seiler Screenplay: Crane Wilbur, Fred Niblo, Jr. Story: Crane Wilbur Photography: Charles Rosher Art Director: Hugh Reticker Editor: Clarence Kolster Tony Joey Gyp Bingo Ace Ouch Beth Jim Buck Soap Krispan Mike Garvey Elmer Krispan Sarah Krispan Hardy Novel crime melodrama in which the “Dead End kids” reform their reform school with the aid of an ex-gangster out of jail on good behavior. (Adults 8C Young People) (Running time, 81 minutes) BULLDOG DRUMMOND’S BRIDE: Produced and distributed by Paramount Director: James Hogan Screenplay: Stuart Palmer, Garnett Wilson (Based on “Bulldog Drummond and the Oriental Mind” by H. C. McNeile) Photography: Harry Fischbeck Art Directors: Hans Dreier, Franz Bachelin Editor: Chandler House Bulldog Drummond John Howard Phyllis Clavering Heather Angel Col. Neilson H. B. Warner Aunt Blanche Elizabeth Patterson Algy Longworth Reginald Denny Tenny E. E. Clive Henry Armides Eduardo Ciannelli Garvey Gerald Hamer Therese Adrienne D’Ambricourt Inspector Tredennis John Sutton Dupres Louise Mercier Gaston Adia Kuzneyzoff Captain Hugh and his Phyllis at last achieve marriage in the midst of an exciting mock-serious adventure involving a bank robbery, a midnight murder and a wild chase over French rooftops. (Adults 8C Young People) (Running time, 57 minutes) Six times before this Phyllis has had Captain Hugh almost at the altar and six times he has dashed away to solve some mystery despite danger and Scotland Yard. True to form at the start of this episode, they are preparing for marriage and a honeymoon in a French cottage. They have even engaged an apartment for their return to England. Then a notorious crook named Armides blasts open a bank vault, escapes with 10,000 pounds — and, posing as a mad house painter. John Howard Heather Angel "BULLDOG DRUMMOND’S BRIDE” 186