Picturegoer (Jan-Apr 1935)

January 26, 1935 Dude R»nK«r, The. Fox. American. " U." Directed by Edward Kline. Featuring George O'Brien, Irene Hervey. Well-produced western with star at his best. D'ye Ken John Peel. A.P.D. British. Directed by Henry Edwards. Featuring John Garrick, Winifred Shotter, John Stuart, Stanley Holloway, Leslie Perrins, and Mary Lawson. Eastern Odyssey, An. Citroen. French " U." Interesting feature, showing the journeys of Citroen tractors across Asia. Fairly entertaining, but lackingdramatic motivation. East River. Fox. American. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Featuring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford. A drama of tunnel workers. Easy Money. Paramount. British. " U." Featuring George Carney, Lawrence Hanray. Based on the story " Sleuths," by Basil Mason. Eighteen Minutes. Pathe. British. Featuring Gregory Ratoff, Benita Hume, and John Loder. Eight-Cylinder Love. Columbia. British. " U." Directed by Peter Saunders. Featuring Dodo Watts and Pat Ahearne. Crude motor-racing melodrama. Elinor Norton. Fox. American. " A." Directed by Hamilton McFadden. Featuring Claire Trevor, Hugh Williams, Gilbert Roland. Psychological triangle drama, lacking in action and presenting a rather exasperating set of characters in a somewhat sordid, artificial atmosphere. Acting is adequate. Elmer and Elsie. Paramount. American. " U." Directed by Gilbert Pratt. Featuring George Bancroft, Frances l'"uller, Roscoe Kams. Gk>od idea demonstrating how women's greatest influence is in the home, poorly developed in loose-knit story. Bancroft is miscast as a dumb husband and Frances Fuller has nothing to do but look wistful. Embarrassing Moments. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Edward Laemmle. Featuring Chester Morris, Marian Nixon. Fast-moving comedy of a hoaxer hoaxed. Popular romance, with Chester Morris at his best. Emil and the Detectives. G. B. British. Directed by Milton Rosmer. Featuring George Hayes. An English version of famous German juvenile detective play. Enchanted ApriL Radio. American. Directed by Harry Beaumont. Featuring Ann Harding, Frank Morgan. Comedy drama. Enter, Madame. Paramount. American. Directed by Elliot Nugent. Featuring Elissa Landi and Cary Grant. Escape Me Never. B. and D. British. Directed by Dr. Paul Cziimer. Featuring Elisabeth Bergner, Leon Quartermain, Hugh Sinclair, and Griffiths Jones. Austrian screen Bernhardt in film version of play in which she created West End furore. Evelyn Prentice. M.-G.-M. American. Directed by William K. Howard. Featuring William Powell, Myma Loy, and Una Merkel. Marital drama with crime background and a legal setting. Brilliant direction and fine acting by the same team as in The Thin Man. Falling In Love. Pathe. British. Directed by Monty Banks. Featuring Charles Farrell, Gregory Ratofl, Mary Lawson. FarreU makes British film debut in a pleasant but somewhat oversentimentalised -romance. Father and Son. Warner. British " A." Directed by Monty Banks. Featuring Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight and Daphne Courtney. Elementary emotional drama banal in story uid dialogue. • Father Brown, Detective. Paramount. American. Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Featuring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, and Gertrude Michael. Detective drama based on G. K. Chesterton stories. Feathered Serpent. The. Columbia. British. " A." Directed by P. Maclean Rogers. Featuring Tom Helmore and Enid Stamp-Taylor. Typical Edg.-»r Wallace murder mystery melodrama ; somewhat involved, but developed on popular lines. Fighting Hero. Universal. American. " U." Directed by Harry S. Webb. Featuring Tom Tyler. Good horsemanship in a somewhat tame and not very convincing horse opera. Fighting Lady. Wardour. American. F'eaturing Pegg>' Shannon and Jack Mulhall. Fighting Stock. Gaumont-British. British. Directed by Tom Walls. Featuring Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, and Robertson Hare. Farce. Fighting to Live. Butcher. American. " U." Directed by Ed. Cline. Featuring Marion Shilling and Gaylord Pendleton. Mystery melodrama of thrills and action. Flames of the Volga. Wardour. French. Directed by V. Tourjansky. Featuring Albert Prejean. Dramatic story of the Russian Revolution after a novel by Pushkin. FUme Within, The. M.-G.-M. American. Story, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, director of Riptide, Grand HoM, etc. Flirting With Danger. Pathe. American. Featuring Robert Armstrong and William Cagney. Flirtation Walk. F.N. American. Directed by Frank Borzage. Featuring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Pat O'Brien. Spectacular musical romance with Hawaiian settings. Flood Tide. Radio. British. " U." Directed by John Baxter. Featuring George Carney, Minnie Rayner. Feeble pseudo-saga of Father Thames with music hall characters and music hall humour. Folies Bergere de Paris. Twentieth Century. American. Featuring Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon. Screen pre BRITISH STUDIOS If you want to keep in touch \ with British studios and their I activities, you cannot do better \ than read E. G. Cousins' articles \ which appear weekly and are \ the best informed and corxstruc \ tive in film jourruLlism. Make a • point of becoming a regular \ subscriber. : sentation of France's most famous stage spectacle. Forgotten Men. Wardour. British. A Documentary war film with actual topicals. A striking indictment of war. Forsaking All Others. M.-G.-M. American. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery. Comedy-romance. Fountain, The. Radio. American. "A." Directed by John Cromwell. Featuring Ann Harding, Brian Aheme, Paul Lukas. Intelligent triangle drama which provides good emotional entertainment in the eternal clash between loyalty and desire. Freckles. Radio. American. Adapted from story by Gene Stratton Porter. Friends of Mr. Sweeney. F.N. American. " A." Directed by F^dmund Ludwig. Featuring Charles Ruggles, Eugene Pallette, Ann Dvorak. Amusing story of a weak-kneed journalist who finds in drink the courage to stand on his own feet. Somewhat complicated, but held together by excellent performance of star. Frisco Fury. Columbia. American. Directed by Frank Capra. Fugitive Lady. Columbia. American. " A." Directed by Albert Rogell. Featuring .\eil Hamilton, Florencf Rice, and Donald Cook. Straightforward melodrama with an exciting train wreck sequence. It is familiar stuff but quite well staged and acted. Gambling. Fox. American. " A." Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Featuring George M. Cohan, Wynne Gibson, and Dorothy Burgess. Moderately exciting murder drama. Gay Bride, The. M.-G.-M. American. " A." Directed by Jack Conway. Featuring Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, and Zasu Pitts. Vigorous comedy-drama which takes you on an entertaining journey through gangsterdom and enlivens you with thrills and hard-boiled morals. Dialogue is pithy and to the point. Gay Divorce, The. Radio. American. " A." Directed by Mark Sandrich. Featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Edward Everett Horton. Has claims to be included among the best musicals to date. Brilliant performances by cast, delightful dancing, tuneful numbers bound together by piquant plot. Gay Love. British Lion. British. " A." Directed by Leslie Hiscott. Featuring Florence Desmond, Sophie Tucker. Romantic comedy with music planned to exploit the mimicry of Florence Desmond and the inimitable Miss Tucker. Gentlemen Are Born. F.N. American. " A. " Directed by Alfred E. Green. Featuring Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, and Jean Muir. Very good acting by the entire cast makes this drama of the struggle of four young college graduates for recognition in the commercial world a human and entertaining picture. George White's Scandals. Fox. American. Featuring James Dunn, Alice Faye, Lyda Roberti, and Cliff Edwards. Second edition of Broadway's most spectacular musical show. Get Your Man. Paramount. British. " A." Directed by George King. Featuring Dorothy Boyd, Helen Ferrers, Sebastian Shaw. Unsophisticated romantic comedy, weak in story values and slow in development but possessing a certain amoung of ingenuous charm. Gift of Gab. Universal. American. " U." Directed by Karl Freund. Featuring Edmund Lx)we, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, and a number of prominent U.S. radio stars. America's radio stars on parade ; a very thin story is used to keep the series of acts together. Gilded Lily, The. Paramount. American. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Featuring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland. Comedy. Girl From Bohemia. B. and D. British. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. Featuring Anna Neagle. Free adaptation of famous opera. The Bohtmian Girl. Girl in Danger. Columbia. American. " A." Directed by D. Ross Ledermann. Featuring Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, and J. Carrol Naish. Circus drama dealing with a society girl who gets mixed up with jewel thieves. Average entertainment. Girl in the Case, The. Universal. American. " U." Directed by Dr. Eugene Frenche. Featuring Jimmy Savo. An experiment in American comedy based on Russian treatment. It does not come off. Girl in the Crowd. F.N. British. " U." Directed by Michael Powell. Featuring Barry Clifton and Patricia Hilliard. Mildly amusing mistaken identity comedy. PICTUREGOER Weekly Girl 0' My Dreams. Pathe. American. F'eaturing .\Iary Carlisle, Eddie .N'ugcnt, Creighton Chaney. Girl of the LImberlost, The. Pathe. American. " U." Directed by Christie Cabanne. Featuring Louise Dresser, Ralph Morgan, Marion Marsh. Sentimental drama based on Gene Stratton Porter's famous novel. 1-eisurely development but clever characterisation, particularly by I^uise Dresser. Girts, Please. B. and D. British. British. " A." Directed by Jack Raymond. Featuring Sydney Howard, June Baxter. " Oor Syd " runs riot in a girls' school. Typical Howard stuff. GirU Will be Boys. Wardour. British. " U." Directed by Marcel Vance. Featuring Dolly Haas, Cyril Maude and Edward Chapman. The little German star impersonates a youth with com NEWS The week's news of the stars : and events in the film world are • fully covered by Malcolm D. [ Phillips each week in " The • Picturegoer." This feature pre \ sents a constructive and thought j ful commentary as well as a • source of interesting information. i plete success in a light-hearted and brightly devised comedy of misunderstanding. Give Her a Ring. Pathe. British. " U." Directed by Arthur Woods. Featuring Clifford Mollison, Wendy Barrie, and Zelma O'Neal. Fairly diverting musical romance. Glimpse of Paradise, A. F.N. British. " U." Directed by Ralph Ince. Featuring George Carney, Eve Lister, and Wally Patch. Maternal love comedydrama, loosely constructed and generally indifferently acted. Gold Diggers ot 1985. F.N. American. Directed by Busby Berkeley. Featuring Gloria Stuart, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, and Grace Bradley. Spectacular romance with music. Good Fairy, The. Universal. American. Directed by William Wyler. Featuring Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, and Frank Morgan. A new love team in romantic drama. Grand Old Girl. Radio. American. Directed by John Robertson. Featuring May Robson, Mary Carlisle. Drama. Great Expectations. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Stuart Walker. Featuring, Heiuy Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt. Sincere picturisation of Dickens' masterpiece, notable for Hull's fine performance as Magwitch. Great Radio Mystery, The. Wardour. American. " A." Directed by Phil Rosen. Featuring Jack La Rue, Thehna Todd, and Leslie Fenton. Murder on the air. Interestingly devised detective tale. Well acted. Great Ziegfeld, The. Universal. American. Directed by Wm. A. McGuire. Featuring William Powell, Fannie Brice, and Harriet Hoctor. A musical spectacle based on life of world's greatest showman. Green Pack, The. British Lion. British. " A." Directed by T. Hayes Hunter. Featuring John Stuart, AUeen Marson, Hugh MiUer. Photographed version of Edgar Wallace's stage play which pivots round the idea of three prospector -partners cutting cards to decide who shall murder a fourth partner who has double-crossed them. Robust melodrama with straightforward-treatment. {Continued on Page 48) 45