Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

Brief Reviews of Current Pictures [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 DIPLOMANIACS — RKO-Radio.— Wheel VVoolsey as delegates to the Peace Conference. Good tie spots, awful in others; lavish !»irl display. (July) DISGRACED — Paramount. — Not a new idea in a carload of this sort of stuff. Mannikin Helen Twelvetrees; rich scamp Bruce Cabot; enough -aid. I.Vf/il.) DREI TAGE MITTELARRES T THREE DAYS IN THE GUARDHOUSE)— Allianz Tonfilm Prod. — Excellent comedy situations when the mayor's maid seeks the father of her child. German dialogue. (A ug.) DON'T BET ON LOVE— Universal— So-so; Lew Ayres wild about race-horses; sweetheart Ginger Rogers feels otherwise. Ends well, after some race stuff. (Sept.) • DOUBLE HARNESS— RKO-Radio.— Scintillating sophistication, with Ann Harding wangling rich idler Bill Powell into marriage, and making him like it. (Sept.) DUDE BANDIT, THE— Allied.— Hoot Gibson, < rloria Shea and others in a Western that's not Hoot at his best. (June) • EAGLE AND THE HAWK, THE— Paramount.— The much used anti-war theme of the ace who cracks under the strain of killing. Fredric March superb; fine support by Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, others. (July) ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT, THE — Allied. — A great fortune, a secret marriage, arguments over a will. Ho-hum. (May) ELMER THE GREAT— First National.— Fine baseball and fine fun. Rookie Joe Brown outdoes Babe Ruth and wins Patricia Ellis. (June) EMERGENCY CALL — RKO-Radio. — Another hospital, gangster, doctor-and-nurse medley, led by Bill Boyd and Wynne Gibson. Fair, but spotty. (July) EX-LADY — Warners. — Pette Davis is for unconventional love until a siren and a villain go after her boy friend. A scenic eyeful. (A pril) FAST WORKERS— M-G-M — Mae Clarke fine in a dull tale about a two-timing skvscraper riveter (Jack Gilbert). (May) FIDDLIN' BUCKAROO, THE— Universal.— Ken Maynard and horse Tarzan in a dull Western. (Sept.) FIRES OF FATE— Powers Pictures.— A Conan Doyle tale of a shell-shocked veteran's adventures in the Egyptian desert; slow for Americans. (June) FLYING DEVILS, THE— RKO-Radio.— Jealous hubby Ralph Bellamy, owner of an air circus, tries to crash Eric Linden. Eric's brother, Bruce Cabot, sacrifices himself in air battle with Bellamy. (.4 ug.) FORGOTTEN MEN— Jewel Prod.— Official war films from fourteen countries; nothing too strong to put in. Fine if you can stand seeing what really happened. (Aug.) FRIEDERIKE— Pascal Prod.— An episode in the life of the G let Johann Wolfgang Goethe; with music. ( May) • FROM HELL TO HEAVEN— Paramount — A great cast in a grand mix-up about people registering at a hotel, with life and death hanging on tomorrow's horse race. Jack Oakie's in it. (April) • GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE— M-G-M. — "What an inspired President would do to depression. " splendidly played by Walter Huston. Karen Morley, Franchot Tone in fine support. (June) GAMBLING SHIP— Paramount.— a good idea gone wrong; Cary Grant, Benita Hume, in a badly worked out gangster piece. (Aug.) GHOST TRAIN, THE— Gainsborough.— A spectral train is supposed to cause shivers, but the horror creaks badly. (May) GI RL I N 419, THE— Paramount.— Sex and adventure in a hospital, when gangsters William Harrigan and Jack LaRue try to silence Gloria Stuart, patient of head surgeon Jimmie Dunn. Fast-stepping; well done. (July) GIRL MISSING — Warners.— You can be, without missing much. Glenda Farrell, Mary Brian, Ben Lyon, in a Palm Beach mystery. (June) • GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933— Warners.^Another and even better "42nd Street.'' with Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, in charge of the fun. A wow musical. (Aug.) GOODBYE AGAIN— Warners.— Good, if not howling, farce. Author Warren William pursued by ex-sweetie Genevieve Tobin; he's for Joan Blondeli. (Sept.) • GREAT JASPER, THE— RKO-Radio.— The life of an expansive Irishman (Richard Dix, giving a grand performance), who makes good at Atlantic City fortune-telling, and with Wera Engels as well as his wife (Florence Eldridge). (April) HEADLINE SHOOTER— RKO-Radio— Newsreel man William Gargan rescues reporter Frances Dee, in an acceptable thriller with a new twi-t. (Sept.) • HELL BELOW— M-G-M.— This one rocks the theater. Tense submarine war scenes. Corking comedy, too. Walter Huston, Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante. Don't miss it. (June) HELLO SISTER— Fox.— Jimmie Dunn and Boots Mallory in a formula plot— scandal makers cause trouble, the truth comes out, etc. ZaSu Pitts helps a lot. (July) HER BODYGUARD— Paramount.— Showgirl Wynne Gibson's so pestered, she hires Eddie Lowe as bodyguard. Good enough fun from there on. (Sept.) HEROES FOR SALE— First National.— Boo hool It's just too awful — all that happens to exsoldier Dick Barthelmess! (Aug.) HERTHAS AWAKENING— I FA— A country lass and a city boy who forgot. Candid sex done sincerely. German with English subtitles. (June) HIGH GEAR— Goldsmith Prod.— An auto racing driver thought to be yellow. Don't bot: HOLD ME TIGHT— Fox.— Another Jimmie Dunn-Sally Eilers opus, poor boy besting the \ they live happily, etc. (Aug.) • HOLD YOUR MAN— M-G-M— Clark Gable and Jean Harlow; both crooked to start, both go straight for love. Not another "Red D'i-i good enough. (Sept.) HUMANITY— Fox.— Ralph Morgan as a noblesouled old family doctor whose doctor son (Alexander Kirkland) isn't so good. Fair entertainment. (June) ICH WILL NICHT WISSEN WER DU BIST (DON'T TELL ME WHO YOU ARE)— Interworld Prod. — A gay and tuneful German love story with English captions. (May) *"I COVER THE WATERFRONT"— United Artists. — The late Ernest Torrence, a man who smuggles Chinamen, exposed when reporter Ben Lyon wins Ernest's daughter, Claudette C Good melodrama. (July) IHRE MAJESTAET DIE LIEBE HER M \JESTY, LOVE)— Warners-First Nationa English subtitles to this German tale of aristocracy ( Francis Lederer) marrying beneath itself (K von Nagy). (April) I LOVED YOU WEDNESDAY— Fox.— Life and loves of dancer Elissa Landi. Victor Jory throws her over; Warner Baxter loves her. Pleasant; not gripping. (Sept.) I LOVE THAT MAN— Paramount.— Nancy Carroll sticks to con-man Eddie Lowe, and all but reforms him when he gets double-crossed and killed. Acceptable. (July) INDIA SPEAKS— RKO-Radio.— Richard Halliburton gives a personally conducted exposure of the caste system and some adventure. We're doubtful. (July) INFERNAL MACHINE— Fox. melodrama; over-sexy. -Dull ship-board INTERNATIONAL HOUSE — Paramount. — A riot of gags, put over by W. C. Fields and others, while Stu Erwin tries to buv a Chinese invention. (July) IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE— Fox.— Perhaps squirrels who see this will think so; most audiences won't. Herbert Mundin. Edna May Oliver help some. (Sept.) JENNIE GERHARDT — Paramount. — Sylvia Sidney's grand acting saves a slow telling of the Dreiser tale about a girl who. unwedded. loved her man throughout life. (Aug.) JUNGLE -BRIDE— Monogram.— After seeing good animal stuff, this is plain hooey. (April) Photoplays Reviewed in the Shadow Stage This Issue Save this magazine — refer to the criticisms before you pic\ out your evening's entertainment. Ma\e this your reference list. Page Another Language — M-G-M 57 Big Executive — Paramount 58 IUind Adventure— RKO-Radio 59 Devil's In Love, The — Fox 58 Devil's Mate — Monogram 59 Die Grosse Attraktion — Tobis-Tauber Emelka Prod 103 Fighting Parson, The — Allied-First Division 103 F. P. 1— Fox-Gaumonl British-UK A 58 Hell's Holiday — Superb Pictures 10.? Her First Mate — Universal 58 Page His Private Secretary — Showmens Pictures 59 Last Trail, The— Fox 102 Life in the Raw — Fox 59 Man Who Dared, The— Fox 57 Midnight Club — Paramount 58 Morning Glory, Tin— RKO-Radio 56 One Year Later— Allied 103 Rafter Romance — RKO-Radio 56 Savage Gold — Harold Auten Prod ;,) ->im; Sinner >im; Majestic Pictures 103 Page Skyway — Monogram 103 Sleepless Nights — Remington Pictures . 102 Strange Case of Tom Mooney, The — First Division 102 This Day and Age — Paramount 56 This Is America — Frederick Ullman. Jr. Prod 102 Three-Cornered Moon — Paramount 57 Trail Drive, The— Universal 103 Tugboat Annie— M-G-M 58 Wrecker. The — Columbia ;i) u