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The National Guide to Motion Pictures
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MARIE DRESSLER plies the Seattle waterfront with her decrepit tugboat Narcissus. Hubby Wally Beery's tippling brings ruin and enrages their son, Bob Young, captain of a smart steamer — until Bob's steamer gets in trouble, and the Narcissus appears. This rescue climax may sound old, but just wait till you see how it's done! Movies rarely have offered a better thrill! Finely acted; Maureen O'Sullivan pleasing.
SLIM SUMMERVILLE sells peanuts on the night boat to Albany, but ZaSu Pitts thinks he's first mate. Still, knowing his yen to be a captain, ZaSu takes the family savings of five thousand dollars and buys him a ferry-boat that promptly blows up. Una Merkel, his pain-in-the-neck sister, thickens the plot, which gets hilariously funny, with dumber and dumber tricks all around. You'll love it.
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Paramount
FLOATING PLATFORM ONE is built in mid-ocean as a landing field for transatlantic air service. Building it and preserving it from unscrupulous attacks first unite and then break up the triumvirate of aviator, played by Conrad Veidt, inventor, Leslie Fenton, and the English girl, Jill Esmond. Interesting photography, Veidt's virile acting, Fenton's adequacy, and plot suspense make this novel idea a thriller.
IMPROBABLE in spots and lacking the vim and zest of a good crook picture, this story of a detective who plays crook to catch crooks, still remains fairly amusing entertainment. George Raft seems a bit miscast as the detective who falls in love with Helen Vinson, a thief, while Clive Brook is a bit too suave a villain. Sir Guy Standing, Alison Skipworth and Alan Mowbray adequate.
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EXECUTIVE — Paramount
WARMED-ovcr Foreign Legion ideas, built into fair entertainment. Victor Jory, army surgeon at a French posl in Morocco, is falsely accused of murdering the brutal commander. His pal, David Manners, helps him escape. Across the border he meets Lorctta Young — to find later that she is affianced to his pal. All okay in the end, of course. Colorful atmosphere helps the tine cast put the time-worn story over.
ANOTHER of those stock market things. It gets pretty boggled before the end, and turns out to be a character study of an erratic financial mogul, played by Richard Bennett. Ricardo Cortez, as the big executive, seems embarrassed by the whole thing, and you never do find out if he shot his superfluous wife on purpose. A lot of handsome production and Elizabeth Young as heroine, with a weak story.
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