The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

UNIVERSAL Disconsolately returning home, he is met by the entire town and presented with a loving cup, in which he finds a check from the government, in payment for his land, which is to be used for a lighthouse and a canal. Because one of the old sea captains has rheumatism, Abbie relents, takes them both in, and it looks like a happy ending for everybody. Helen Mack, Henry Travers, Nydia Westman, Creighton Chaney, and others supplement the excellent cast, and John Robertson directs the Cape Cod goings-on as they should be directed. TRANSIENT ,Earl-v mining. A ¥ »nv sleepy southern town just waking to greet a new day . . . and plenty of excitement. On a specially constructed track in the middle of the street, the camera precedes Henry Hull as he walks along stopping now and then before a store and signaling a relative to join him. By the time Hull and his followers reach the courthouse, the gang has taken on the proportions of an Elks' convention ! Universal has spread itself to make the scene authentic in every detail. Old Civil War cannons and statues of Confederate soldiers sprinkle the lawn of the Square; the colored people have that air, typical of the southern negro. Hull, political ruler of the town, and his crooked followers just about run things to suit themselves. When Clark Williams and Edward Ellis are obliged to throw several of Hull's roughnecks out of their skating rink for insulting Frances Drake, exhibition skater, the toughs get plastered and follow Ellis home, determined to get him. In self-defense, Ellis shoots one of the gang and then, frightened, runs away, leaving Clark to take the blame. Hull, who is the brother of the slain man, packs the jury with his crooked stooges, instructing them that, no matter what the evidence, they must find Clark guilty. But Gene Raymond, defense attorney, gets the principal witness so crossed up ■ that, in desperation, the fellow whips out a gun and fires, point blank, at the lawyer. And, even the fixed jury can't convict Clark in the face of such a damaging demonstration. Foiled, Hull plans a lynching party, but before they can carry out their nasty plans. Ellis returns and gives himself up to Hull. Seeing a chance to make a grandstand play, Hull rushes to the jail, gives the lynching crew an impassioned plea for law and order, and his own mob, wondering what it is all about, goes away from there, puzzled, but docile. It's an Octavus Roy Cohen story and Eddie Buzzell directs. DEVIL'S CARGO COLUMBIA Personally, we can't see too much of that Wallace Ford fellow so, when Columbia announced that he was to star in this Anthony Coldeway story, we swung from the chandelier and let loose our hefty elephant call! Injured in a dirt track auto race, Wally is warned by his doctor that, because his heart has gone pf-ff-ft, there must be no more racing. No more excitement of any kind ! So, Wally takes a truck job, driving dynamite to a construction camp in the mountains ! Of course, there's a villain, Arthur Hohl, who does things to our hero's brakes , tries to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide from his own truck, and generally conducts himself in the accepted villainous manner, all because Marian Marsh has given Wally an option on her affections! There is a smash climax, with Wally rolling merrily down the mountain road, dynamite all around him and no more brakes than a rabbit! And, how he gets out of that one, is something Director Lambert Hillyer wouldn't even tell Wally himself! CAR 99 PARAMOUNT It looks as if Paramount has cornered all the handsome six-footers in town for this story of the perils of the Michigan State Police. They had to chloroform us to get us off the set! Fred MacMurray is down on his knees, shooting craps when Dean Jagger enters and stands behind him. "Don't you know that's against regulations?'' Dean says sternly. "Come on, eight! . . . Oh, boy! . . . that's it!!" Fred ignores him. Dropping down on one knee beside him, Dean watches the rolling bones for a minute. Then, "It's all set," he grins. "You're coming along with the outfit. We leave in the morning . . ." "No!" Fred gasps, dropping the dice! "No foolin'!" And, at Dean's nod of assurance, he throws his arm around his pal and howls for joy. "0. K.!" Director Charles Barton announced. "But, let's have another take, just to be sure." Karl Detzer wrote the story, and it's packed with everything that goes to make good pictures. MacMurray wants to be transferred to the Pine River State Police Division, so as to be near Ann Sheridan. And that's the cause of the excitement in the above-mentioned craps-shooting sequence. Sir Guy Standing, vacationing in Pine River, takes a hefty interest in the mechanics of police broadcasting, and, because he is a judge and apparently trustworthy, the police let him hang around the big central radio station while they send out instructions to police cars. Which only goes to prove that you can fool some of the people some of the time, etc:, because Sir Guy is head of a notorious gang of bank-holderuppers ! ! And anybody knows that it certainly helps a lot to know just what territory to stay out of when the police are on your trail! Suspicious of the man, Fred investigates one of Standing's cars, which is fully equipped with police radio, "flopover" license plates, sawed-off shotguns and such like! But, do you know, the sheriff is so impressed with the bogus judge that he refuses to arrest him, and, while waiting for authority from headquarters, Sir Guy and his daughter make as neat a get-away as you've ever seen! Then comes the chase, with, of course, the handsome coppers winning hands down! And, coming from Michigan, ourself (stop me if you've heard it) we're stating that Karl Detzer sure knows the ins and outs of our bloodhounds of the law! NAUGHTY MARIETTA • M-G-M Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, romancing (vocally) to the incomparable melodies of our beloved Victor Herbert! The plot is of operetta formula, with the beautiful princess running away from an unpleasant marriage of state to find her true love in forbidden fields, and live happily ever after. But, what's a plot, anyhow? Jeanette and Nelson could sing "Three Blind Mice," and we'd still love it. {Please turn to page 68) BLONDE ^x '"» -■ -■:.. Admired by Men Envied by Women ! Nature loves blondes.' Not everybody wants light hair, but every brunette envies that fresh, bright clean look so natural to blondes. Marchand's Golden Hair Wash is best with soft golden hair. 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