Picturegoer (Jan-Apr 1935)

PICTUREGOER Weekly January 26, 1935 Continuing FILMS YOU WILL SEE IN 1935 British Agent. Warner Bros. American. "A." Directed by .Michael Curtiz. Starring Leslie Howard, Kay Francis. Conventional spy melodrama efficiently produced. Broken Rosary. Butcher. British. " U." Directed by Harry Hughes. Featuring Derek Oldham, V'esta Victoria. Simple, but pleasant, romance of Italian singer who loses his girl to his best friend. There are several wellintroduced songs for Derek Oldham, and the theme is sincerely treated. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back. Twentieth Century. .American. " A." Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Featuring Ronald Colman, Loretta Young. Colman returns after a long absence in one of his most popular characterisations. Fast-moving crook drama, which relies on its expertly handled thrills rather than on plot values. Calliente. F.N. American. Featuring Dolores Del Rio. Drama. Call of the Wild. Twentieth Century. " A." American. Directed by Wilham VVellman. Featuring Clark Gable. .Ambitious adaptation of Jack London's story of the Yukon gold rush. Captain Blood. F.N. AmericanFeaturing Robert Donat. Romantic adventure drama with historical background. Captain Hates the Sea, The. Columbia. "A." American. Directed by Lewis -Milestone. Featuring V'ictor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, John Gilbert, Tala Birell, Florence Rice, and Alison Skipworth. Comedy melodrama adapted from Wallace Smith's novel in which the comedy is better than the melodrama. Caravan. Fox. American. " U." Directed by Erik Charrell. Featuring Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Phillips Holmes. Spectacular musical romance in stage tradition. Simple plot is overshadowed by lavish settings and overworked musical numbers ; mainly pleasing to the eye. Cardinal Richelieu. Twentieth Century. American. Featuring George Arliss. Historical drama in Arliss manner. Carnival in Spain. Paramount. .\merican. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Featuring Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero. Drama. Case for the Crown, The. Paramount. British. " U." Directed by George Cooper. Featuring Miles Mander, Merie' Forbes. Crime drama with Old Bailey trial scene. Some ingenuity, but weak in construction. Case of the HowUng Dog, The. F.N. .\merican. " A." Directed by Alan Crosland. Featuring Warren Wilham and .Mary Astor. Clever character drawing in a crime drama, with a plot that hinges on the lav/ that prevents a person being tried twice on the same murder charge. Casino de Paree. F.X. .American. I>irected by Archie Mayo. Featuring Al Jolson, Ruby Kc-eler, and Glenda Farrell. Dramatic musical. Cat's Paw, The. Fox. American. "A." Directed by Sam Taylor. Featuring Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier. Lloyd strikes a new note in a straight character comedy and succeeds in being very entertaining. Charlie Chan In London. Fox. American. " A." Directed by Eugene Ford. Featuring Warner Oland, Drue Ley ton. The latest contribution to the Chan series — a murder mystery melodrama which is well up to the standard of its predecessors. Charlie Chan in Paris. Fox. AmericanDirected by Hamilton MacFaddenFeaturing Warner Oland. The astute> obsequious Chinese detective solving mysteries again. ^ Cheaters. Wardour. American. " A.' Directed by Phil Rosen. Featuring Bill Boyd, Dorothy Mackaill and June CoUyer. A straight-forward interpretation of the " redemption " theme quite well acted. Cheating Cheaters. American. Directed by William Weyler. Featuring Fay Wray, Cesar Romero, and Minna Gombell. Comedy romance of setting a crook to catch a crook ! Circus Clown, The. F.N. American. " U." Directed by Ray Enright. Featuring Joe E. Brown and Patricia Ellis. Admirers of Joe E. Brown should like this simple comedy of the sawdust ring which possesses the merit of suitability for children. CUve of India. Twentieth Century. American Directed by Richard Boleslavsky. Featuring Ronald Colman. Historical drama based on life of great Empire Builder. Cockeyed Cavaliers. Radio. American. " A." Directed by Mark Sanrich. Featuring Wheeler and Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd The old firm of Wheeler and Woolsey makes its contribution to the costume cycle. College Rhythm. Paramount. American. " A." Directed by Norman Taurog. Featuring Jack Oakie, Joe Penner, Lanny Ross, Helen Mack. Musical comedy extravaganza featuring American big business ballyhoo and rivalry between two department stores, with football game as highlight. Excellent comedy by principals. Concealment. Warner Bros. American. Directed by Wm. Dieterle. Featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William. Drama of political intrigue. CONTACT • We call our readers' attentior\ • i particularly to the articles in i i this issue dealing vuith the pro • i ducers' plans for the year. \ i Perusal of these will give them \ \ a more persorxal contact with \ 1 the men who are strivir^ to i ; cater for their entertainment • i this year, and make it a i i memorable one in screen history. • Count of Monte Cristo, The. U.A. American. " U." Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Featuring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi. Excellent screen adaptation of Dumas' famous story of vengeance, exceptionally well set and with a fine performance by Donat as the Count. County Chairman, The. Fox. American. Directed by John Blystone. Featuring Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Berton Churchill. Courageous. Warner. American. " A." Directed by Alfred E. Green. Featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez. Barbara Stanwyck's fine perforniance puts life into this conventional and slowly developed story of a young woman who marries a middle-aged man and had an affair with a young lover. Sincerity of atmosphere and acting atone for plot's shortcomings. Craiy People. M.-G.-M. American. " U." Directed by Leslie Hiscott. Featuring Henry Kendall, Kenneth Kove, Nancy O'Neil, and Helen Haye. Unpretentious comedy of a man who tries to raise money from a rich aunt by pretending to run a sanatorium. Humour depends on dialogue rather than action which is slow. Crime Without Passion. Paramount. American. " A." Directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Featuring Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne. Novel and brilliant crime story. Hecht and MacArthur, formerly writers, set out to show Hollywood how pictures should be made — and they did. Fine acting by little publicised cast. Crimson Paradise. Columbia. American. " U ." Directed by Robert F. Hill. Featuring Nick Stuart, Lucille Brown. That story again about a young waster who is redeemed by simple country maid. Crimson Romance. .A.B.F.D. American. Directed by David Howard. Featuring Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, and Erich von Stroheim. Romantic comedydrama with speitacular aeroplane sequences. Crusades, The. Paramount. American Directed by Cecil B. De Mille. Featuring Henry WUcoxon and Ian Keith. Spectacular drama. Daddy Long Legs (Re-issue). Fox. American. " U." Directed by Alfred Santell. Featuring Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge. The screen's most popular romance. Dames. Warner. American. " A." Directed by Ray Enright. Featuring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell. Another spectacular song and dance show in the Warner tradition. Dance Band. Wardour. British. Directed by Marcel Vanel. Featuring Buddy Rogers, June Clyde and Albert Whelen. A dance band on a pleasure cruise. Dandy Diek. Wardour. British. Directed by WiUiam Beaudine. Featuring Will Hay, Nancy Bume, John Mill, David Burnaby and Esmond Knight. An adaptation of the famous Pinero farce. Dangerous Corner. Radio. " A." Directed by Phil Rosen. Featuring Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, and Melvin Douglas. Somewhat verbose, but quite entertaining version of J. B. Priestley's play delineating the wisdom of letting sleeping dogs lie. Dante's Inferno. Fox. American, Directed by Harry Lachman. Featuring Spencer Tracy, Alice Faye, Claire Trevor, and Henry B. Walthall. David CopperOeld. M.-G.-M. American. Directed by George Cukor. F'eaturing W. C. Fields, Frank Lawton, Lionel Barrymorc, Edna May Oliver and an all-star cast. Hollywood hopes something will turn up — you for preference ! Death at Broadcasting House. A.B.F.D. British. "A." Directed by Reginald Denham. Featuring Ian Hunter, Henry Kendall and Mary Newland. Murder mystery drama familiar in theme but novel in its 'B.B.C. settings. Rather slow but certainly enterprising in idea. Defence Rests, The. Columbia. American. " A." Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Featuring Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, and .Arthur Hohl. Drama of unscrupulous lawyer who is led to see the error of his ways by an attractive young secretary. Familiar material but put on with plenty of punch and vigorous acting. Depths Below, The Columbia. .American. Directed by Erie Kenton. Featuring Jack Holt and Edmund Lowe. Dernier Milliardaire, Le. Film Society. French. " U." Directed by Rene Clair. Featuring Max Dearly, Paul Olivier, and Marthe Mellet. Rich Ruritanian farce ; excellently directed and brilliantly acted. Desert Outlaw, The. A.B.F.D. American. " U." Directed by Phil Rosen. Featuring Bob Steele, Helen Foster and Naomi Judge. Mediocre Western with usual action but poorly conceived story. Desirable. Warner. American. " A." Directed by Archie Mayo. Featuring Jean Muir, George Brent, Verree Teasdale. Moving story of selfish mother who is prepared to sacrifice her daughter's happiness to her own vanity. Strong feminine appeal. Devil Dogs of the Air. Warner Bros. .American. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Featuring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Margaret Lindsay. Comedy. GARBO'S LATEST j A number of the films dealt \ i unth here will, on their general i i release, be the subjects of \ i " Picturegoer's " Famous Films j • and Souvenir Supplements — i j another unique service supplied \ i free to its readers by this paper, i j These 16-page supplements, j i magnificently illustrated in j j photograimre , have become a \ i popular " Picturegoer " feature. \ I One of the earliest will he in \ \ connection xjuith " The Painted i i Veil," Greta Garbo's latest \ i success. i Devil on Wheels. A.B.F.D. American. Directed by Colbert Clark. Featuring Jack Mulhall, Frankie Darro and Lola Lane. Romantic drama of the race track. Dictator, The. G. B. British. Directed by Victor SaviUe. Featuring Chve Brook and Madeleine Carroll. Famous EngUsh star makes his first British talkie. Dirty Work. G. B. British. "A" Directed by Tom Walls. Featuring Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare. Lynn and Harker as a new team in the old Aldwych formula, with mysterious jewel thefts as mainspring. Dr. Monica. Warner. American. " A." Directed by William Keighley. Featuring Kay Francis, Warren William, Jean Muir. Sordid and artificial drama mainly concerned with obstetrics. Doctor's Orders. Wardour. British. " U." Directed by Norman Lee. Featuring Leslie F^uUer, John Mills and Mary Jerrold. Leslie Fuller has full opfKwtunities for his own popular brand of humour as a travelling medical man whose son becomes a doctor and because of his father's calling nearly loses his girl. Dover Road, The. Radio. American. " .A." Directed by J. Walter Ruben. Featuring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook. Heavy-handed treatment and somewhat stilted acting. .A. A. Milne's light fantastic romance adapted — seems stodgy and incredible. There are, however, some good comedy interludes. Dragon Murder Case, The. Warner. American. " A." Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. Featuring Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyie Talbot. Mr. William becomes Philo Vance in a workmanlike murder mystery story bv S. S. Van D>-ne. Extravagant, but ingenious plot. Drake of England. Wardour. British. Directed by Arthur Woods. Featuring Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler and Jane Baxter. Historical drama. Du Barry. Wardour. British. Directed bv Paul L. Stein. Featuring Gretc Ratzler. 44