Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1932)

LAW OF THE WEST— Sono Art-World Wide.— The same old gun play and hard riding. Bob Steele. (.May) • LETTY LYNTON— M-G-M.— A gripping tale with Joan Crawford at her best, as Lelty. Nils Asther is a fascinating villain and Robert Montgomery gives a skilful performance. The direction, plus a strong cast, make this picture well worth seeing. (June) LOCAL BAD MAN, THE— Allied Pictures— A mild Western with Hoot Gibson gone naive. (March) • LOST SQUADRON, THE— Radio Pictures. — A fine, behind-the-screen aviation picture about an unscrupulous director who sacrifices everything for realism. (April) LOVE BOUND — Peerless Prod. — A slow, ponderous picture. It becomes so involved that the outcome seems vague even to the players. Natalie Moorhead and Jack Mulhall. (June) • LOVERS COURAGEOUS — M-G-M. — An old story done beautifully by Bob Montgomery and Madge Evans. You'll like it. (March) MAKER OF MEN— Columbia.— A football coach is the hero of this appealing, if slightly slowmoving story. Good work by Richard Cromwell and Jack Holt. (Feb.) M A NHATTA N PA RA DE— Warners.— Broadway gets a chance to see itself satirized. Laughs by the vaudeville team of Dale and Smith, helped by Winnie Lightner and Charles Butterworth. Technicolor. (Feb.) MAN WHO PLAYED GOD, THE— Warners.— An unusual theme, with George Arliss dominating the picture. Decidedly worth your while. (March) MAN WANTED — Warners. — A new twist to the "office wife" theme. Lovely Kay Francis is boss and David" Manners, her secretary. Una Merkel and Andy Devine are very funny. (June) • MATA HARI— M-G-M.— Garbo and Novarro are co-starred in a glittering story of the most romantic of all war spies. Grand supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone. (Feb.) MENACE, THE— Columbia.— Recommended for ardent mystery fans only. (April) MEN IN HER LIFE— Columbia.— The dialogue crackles, but the old story creaks. All about a rich girl in Europe and a rough and ready American. Lois Moran and Charles Bickford both good. (Jati.) MEN OF CHANCE— Radio Pictures.— The old story of the woes of a gambler's wife, well acted by Ricardo Cortez and Mary Astor. (Feb.) MICHAEL AND MARY— Universal— Matinee idol Herbert Marshall should have better material than this slow moving English film. Wife Edna Best plays opposite him. (March) MIDNIGHT PATROL, THE— Monogram.— Another newspaper yarn, but with some brand-new angles. Regis Toomey, an ambitious cub reporter and Robert Elliott, a convincing detective. Betty Bronson is the girl. (June) • MIRACLE MAN, THE— Paramount— The talkie version of your old favorite doesn't make film history as the silent picture did. but its treatment is excellent. Chester Morris and Svlvia Sidney. (May) MISLEADING LADY, THE— Paramount — Claudette Colbert learns about cave-men from Edmund Lowe. A laugh-loaded story wherein the society girl wilts and the he-man turns soft. (June) MISSING REMBRANDT, THE— First Division. — Sherlock Holmes proves a prominent baron to be a first-class villain. Arthur Wontner, as Sherlock, gives his usual finished performance. (June) MONSTER WALKS, THE— Action Pictures.— Another horror picture. (April) MORALS FOR WOMEN— Tiffany Prod.— This "it's the woman who pays'' yarn takes a couple of new routes and brings back trouper Bessie Love. (Jan.) MOUTHPIECE, THE— Warners.— Warren William gives a good account of himself as an underworld attorney who, falling in love with his stenographer (Sidney Fox), tries to go straight. Fair. (June) MURDER AT DAWN— Big Four Prod.— A grizzly mystery yarn in which the actors are more confused but not as amused as the audience. (April) • MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE— Universal. — Here's another shocker for you with plenty of thrills and chills. Bela Lugosi and the ape deserve a big hand. (March) Photoplay Magazine for July, 1932 MY WIFE'S FAMILY— Best International Pictures.— Old, old gags in an old, old farce. (May) NECK AND NECK— Thrill-O-Drama.— Only Stepin Fetchit's funny face and voice saw this .lull race-track story from a complete case of the doldrums. (Jan.) NICE WOMEN— Universal.— A trite plot proves entertaining because of Sidney Fox, Russell Gleason and Frances Dee. (April) NIGHT BEAT— Action Pictures.— Unless you simply can't exist without another gangster picture, pass this one by. (March) • NIGHTCOURT— M-G-M— A crooked judge frames an innocent mother and sends her to jail. Walter Huston, as the judge, is magnificent. Phillips Holmes as the young husband, does outstanding work and Anita Page, as the young mother, is splendid. Gripping. (June) NO ONE MAN — Paramount. — Sumptuous clothes, gorgeous sets, smooth direction, Carole Lombard and Paul Lukas almost make up for the tottering plot. (March) • ONE HOUR WITH YOU— Paramount— A gay, naughty farce with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. It has music and grand Lubitsch touches. (April) OPERA BALL — Greenbaum-Emelka Prod. — English lines flashed on the screen make it possible for you to enjoy this sprightly German production of Viennese night life. (Jan.) • OVER THE HILL— Fox.— Mae Marsh's screen return as the self-sacrificing mother unwanted by her children. Jimmie Dunn and Sally Eilers, too. (Jan.) PANAMA FLO— RKO-Pathe.— Different situations went haywire in a potpourri of speakeasies, honkey-tonks and jungles. So what could Helen Twelvetrees and Charlie Bickford do? (March) • PASSIONATE PLUMBER, THE— M-G-M. — This couldn't be crazier, but it's as funny as it's crazy. Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. (April) PEACH O'RENO—RadioPictures— Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in an absurd plot concoction of Reno's divorce colony. Short on romance but long on laughs. (Jan.) PLAY GIRL— Warners. — Loretta Young and Norman Foster in an entertaining enough play that tries to settle this marriage-or-career-business, but doesn't. (May) POCATELLO KID, THE— Tiffany Prod— Ken Maynard in another Wild Western setting; Marceline Day, the lady in distress. (Feb.) POLICE COURT— Monogram.— This old-time melodrama creaks wearily across the screen. A father-and-son yarn, with Henry B. Walthall, Aileen Pringle and King Baggott. (June) POLLY OF THE CIRCUS— M-G-M— Marion Davies and Clark Gable in a modernized version of an old favorite. (April) • POSSESSED— M-G-M.— What a pair Joan Crawford and Clark Gable make in a picture that has plenty of action, sophistication, and gorgeous clothes. (Jan.) PRESTIGE — RKO-Pathe. — Ann Harding is lovely, which doesn't quite compensate for this haphazard yarn about a tropica! penal colony. (March) • PRIVATE LIVES— M-G-M.— Norma Shearer and Bob Montgomery do good team work in this farce made amusing by priceless, if risque, lines. You one hundred per cent sophisticates will have yourselves a fling. (Feb.) PROBATION— Chesterfield.— If you've been shopping around for a quiet little love story, here it is. Johnny Darrow, in love with Sally Blane, is grand. Then there is J. Farrell MacDonald and Clara Kimball Young. (June) RACING YOUTH— Universal.— If you aren't too critical, you'll enjoy this story of automobile road racing with Frank Albertson, June Clyde and Louise Fazenda. (Jan.) RAINBOW TRAIL.— Fox.— George O'Brien tries to make a weak Western come to life. (Feb.) RANGE LAW— Tiffany Prod.— This Western taxes the credulity but Ken Maynard does some slick riding. (Jan.) RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US, THE— First National. — A gay story and such a relief after the recent heavy Chatterton dramas. Ruth is the deserted wife in this, still interested in the deserter. George Brent, excellent. Bette Davis and John Miljan both good. 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