Picturegoer (Jan-Apr 1935)

PICTUREGOER Weekly January 26, 1935 Continuing FILMS YOU WILL SEE IN 1935 Guy Fawkes. F.N. British. Drama of the Gunpowder Plot. Happiness Ahead. F.N. American. Directed by Harry Sauber. Featuring Josephine Hutchinson and Dick Powell. Good musical dealing with the romance of a window cleaner and a stage star. Tuneful numbers and bright wisecracks. Serves to introduce one of Broadway's most famous stage stars in Josephine Hutchinson. Hat, Coat and Glove. Radio. American. " A." Directed by Worthington Miner. Featuring Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Robbins. Vague murder story with ingenious trial scenes, made entertaining by brilliant acting of Ricardo Cortez. Have a Heart. M.-G.-M. American. " U." Directed by David Butler. Featuring Jean Paker, James Dunn, and Una iVIerkel. Extremely ingenuous and thin romance which breathes the spirit and sentiment of a perfervid Victorian novelette. Hawaiian Nights. Radio. American. " A." Directed by Paul Sloan. Featuring .Mary Boland, Sidney Fox, Sidney Blackmer, Ned Sparks. Novel musical with all the necessary ingredients of romance, tunefulness and spectacle which somehow in the process of production have come unstuck. It only succeeds in being tedious and unfunnv. American. Healer, The. Pathe. Featuring Lionel Atwill. Hell Afloat. .M.-G.-M. American. A story of the Q boats, the mystery ships of the world war, directed by F'ritz Lang, famous director of Metropolis, \I, etc. Hell Cat, The. Columbia. American. " U." Directed by Albert Rogell. Featuring Robert Armstrong, .-Vnn Sothern, and Minna Gombell. Conventional newspaper comedy-drama with hectic romance and a few thrills. Helldorado. Fox. .American. Directed by James Cruze. Featuring Richard .Arlen, Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy, and James Gleason. Hell in the Heavens. Fox. American. " A." Directed by John Blystone. Featuring Warner Baxter, Conchita .Montenegro, Russell Hardie, and Herbert Mundin. Thrills in the air. Rather outmoded at this date. Henry Hall Special. Wardour. British. The famous B.B.C. Dance Band leader makes his talkie debut. Here Comes the Navy. Warner. .American. " A." Directed by Lloyd. Bacon. Featuring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart. Cagney and O'Brien in " Flagg and Quirt " roles in rough-house comedy of average entertainment values. Here is My Heart. Paramount. American. Directed by Frank Tuttle. Featuring Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, -Alison Skipworth, Roland Young. .Adapted from Grand Duchess and The Waiter. Her Sacriflce. Columbia. American. " A" Directed by Ray William Neill. Featuring Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, and Paul Kelly. The old tale of the working girl with a rich and a po<jr suitor with a modem industrial setting. Good average entertainment. Hide-Out. M.-G.-M. American. " U." Directed by W. S. van Dvke. Featuring Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, and Mickey Rooney. Delightful romantic comedy-drama of a crook's reformation which for once, is completely credible and unforced in sentiment. Excellent acting, and a charming unsophisticated rural atmosphere. Very good entertainment. His Greatest Gamble. Radio. .American. " A." Directed by John Roberts. Featuring Richard Dix, Dorothy Wilson. Quite novel drama of a gambler who sacrifices himself in order to bring his daughter happiness. Good performance by star and generally sound production. 48 His Majesty & Co. Fox. British. Directed by Anthony Kimmins. Featuring John Garrick, Barbara Waring, Morton Selton, and Wally Patch. A romantic comedy with a musical background. Hit Me Again. F.N. American. Directed by Robert Florey. Featuring Joan Blondell, Warren William. Pseudo smart domestic psychological comedy, indifferently presented. Fair entertainment. House of Danger, The. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Charles Hutchinson. Featuring Onslow Stevens, Janet Chandler. Involved crook melodrama, which makes heavy going and is only moderately produced. House of Doom, The. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Edgar Ulmer. Featuring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi. Horror Kings teamed in an up-to-date version of Poe's famous thriller, "The Black Cat." Will please " chiller " fans, but the squeamish can stay at home. Housewife. F.N. American. " A." Directed by Alfred E. Green. Featuring Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, George Brent. Straining after a happy ending makes this drama of domesticity and motherhood rather artificial. Technically well presented and its appeal is obviouslv directed to women. Hudson Bay. F.N. epic story of Canada. British. .An Human Side, The. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Edward Buzzell. Featuring Adolphe Menjou, Doris Kenyon, Charlotte Henry. Domestic comedy with a homely touch and an appealing child interest. Notable for a good performance by Menjou as a father who temporarily deserts his family. FILM STORIES " Picturegoer' s " stories of the films are not just synopses, but dramatised versions of the plots which pay due regard to characterisation and construction in short story form. They are just another example of the paper's service to readers. In Town To-night. British Lion. British. Directed by Herbert Smith. Featuring Jack Barty, Stanley Holloway, Olive Groves. Another musical in the radio series which serves to introduce a number of popular artistes of the microphone and stage. Invader, The. G.B. British. Directed by Adrian Brunei. Featuring Buster Keaton. The frozen-faced comedian makes his British screen debut. Irish HearU. .M.-G.-M. British. " A." Directed by Desmond Hurst. Featuring Lester Matthews, Nancy Bume, and Molly Lamont. Excellent Irish scenery and some good acting in negligible romantic drama of a doctor and a nurse. Iron Duke, The. G.B. British. " U." Directed by Victor Saville. Featuring George Arliss, Gladys Cooper. Mr. Arliss lightly disguised as Wellington talks his way, none too convincingly, through an ambitiously planned but leisurely developed historical drama. I Sell Anything. .American. " .A." Directed by Robert Florey. Featuring Pat O'Brien and Ann Dvorak. Fine comedy characterisation by O'Brien in amusing and novel expose of the auction racket. It's a Bet. Wardour. British. Directed by Alexander Esway. F"eaturing Gene Gerrard and Helen Chandler. High speed comedy with England's beauty spots as background. It's a Gift. Paramount. American. " U." Directed by Norman MacLeod. Featuring W. C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Tammany Young, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Sam Hardy and JuHan Madison. W. C. Fields supplies six reels of hilarious entertainment in a human domestic farce that gets its humouf from ex aggerating everyday occurrences. Hundred Years From Now, A. (Whither Mankind?) London Films. British. Directed by William Cameron Menzies. A glimpse into the future from an original script from the pen of H. G. Wells. Hyde Park. Warner. BriUsh. " U." Directed by Randall Faye. Featuring George Carney, Barry Clifton, and Eve Lister. Live romantic comedy with a political bias, which tries to be humorous about the alleged insincerity of the socialists. Adequately presented. I Am a Thief. Warner. American. Directed by Robert Florey. Featuring Ri;ardo Cortez and .Mary Astor. Mystery thriller. I Give My Love. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Karl Freund. Featuring Wynne Gibson, Paul Lukas, Eric Linden. Hollywood's favourite mother-love story emerges from this adaptation of Vicki Baum's novel. Good acting, conventional treatment. I'll Fix It. Columbia. American. " U." Directetl by Roy William Neill. Featuring Jack Holt, Mona Barrie, and Jimmy Butler. Hard-boiled story of a political grafter which puts over popular sentiment and brotherly love in a refreshingly virile manner. Imitation of Lite. Universal. American. " U." Directed by John M. StahL Featuring Claudette Colbert, Warren WiUiam. Outstanding domestic and racial drama with cast of 2,500. In Old SanU Fe. A.B.F.D. American. Directed by David Howard. Featuring Ken Maynard, H. B. Warner, Evelyn Knapp, and Tarzan. Romance on the ranch. I've Been Around. Universal. American. Directed by Kurt I Neumann. F'eat uring Chester Morris. Highspeed-comedy romance. Jane Eyre. Pathe. American. " A." Directed by Christie Cabanne. Featuring Virginia Bruce, Colin CUve. Leisurely and scrappy adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's book which is relieved only by attractive child interest provided b\' Edith Fellows. Jealousy. Columbia. American. ".A." Directed by Ray Neill. Featuring Nancy Carroll and George Murphy. Good boxing melodrama with excellent ringside and ring scenes. Jeanne. Wardour. F'rench. " A." Directed by G. Georges Marret. Featuring Gaby Moriav, Jeanne Lion, and Nadia. Brilliant characterisation by Gaby Morlay in a psychological story of frustrated motherhood. Exceedingly good treatment. Jew Siiss. (i.B. British. " A." Directed by Lothar Mendes. Featuring Conrad Veidt, Bcnita Hume, Frank Vosper. Feuchtwanger's masterpiece fails to come to life in this ponderous but at times impressive adaptation. Josser on the Farm. Fox. British. " .A." Directed by T. Hayes Hunter. Featuring Ernie Lotinga, Betty Astell, and Muriel Aked. Broad comedy extravaganza planned to provide ample scope for star's robust music-hall humour. Joy of Living, The. Universal. American. Directed by B. F. Zeldman. Featuring June Clayworth, Douglass Montgomery. Romantic comedv-drama. Judge Priest. Fox. American. " U." Directed by John Ford. Featuring Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise. Picturesque period comedy, homely in humour, American in sentiment and moderate in entertainment. Kansas City Princess, The. Warner. American. " A." Directed by William Keighley. Featuring Joan Blondell, Glenda FarreU, Robert Armstrong. Sophisticated " gold digger " farce, somewhat mechanical but mildly amusing entertainment. Kentucky Minstrels. Universal. American. " U." Directed by John Baxter. Featuring Scott and Whalley, Nina Mae Mc Kinney and Debroy Somers and his Band. Sketchy story of the evolution of music-hall entertainment during past thirty years. Relies on individual efforts of popular artistes for your approval. Key, The. Warner. American. " U." Directed by Michael Curtiz. Featuring Edna Best, Colin Clive, W'iUiam Powell. Conventional triangle elrama set against background of Irish " troubles " of 1920. Not very credible but goe>d entertainment. Kid Millions. U.A. American. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Featuring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Ann Sothern. Comedy extravaganza with touch of fantasy for Cantor fans. Comeelian himself thinks it is better than Whoopee. \'o\i please yourself. Kids on the CuH. Paramount. American. Directed by Marshall Neilan. Featuring Max Baer, Grant Withers, David Holt, Gertrude Michael, Alison Skipworth. Boxing drama. King Kelly of the U.S.A. Pathe. .American. " U." Directed by Howard Higgin. Featuring Guy Robertson, Irene Ware and Edgar Kennedy. Gay, harmless Ruritanian trifle with occasional songs. King of Paris. B. andD. British. "A.' Directed by Jack Raymond. Featuring Cedric Hardwicke and Marie Glory. Latter makes auspicious British talkie debut in a marital drama with a backstage setting. King of the Damned. G.B. British. Directed by Walter Forde. Featuring Conrad \>idt. Kiss and Make-Up. Paramount. American. " A." Directed by Harlan Thompson. Featuring Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, and Edward Everett Horton. Amusing satire in beautyparlour racket with outstanding performance by Horton as beauty doctor who finds scientific research safer than beauty culture after a matrimonial misadventure. La Bohime. (See Vie de Boheme). Wardour. British. Directed by Paul L. Stein. Featuring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks, jun. Film version of .Murger's " Vie de Boheme." Lad, The. Julius Hagen Production. Directed by Henry Edwards. Featuring Gordon Harker, Jane Carr. Screen version of story by the late Edgar Wallace. Laddie. Radio. American. Directed by (ieorge Nicholls, jun. Featuring John Beal. Sentimental cometly-dran>a from Gene Stratton Porter's book. Ladies Should Listen. Paramount. American. " A." Directed by Frank Tuttle. Featuring Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton. Bright comedy of philanderer's dilemma in entanglement with three women. Rather thin, but witty in dialogue and quite well acted. Lady In Danger. G.B. British. " .A." Directed by Tom Walls. Featuring Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaiid, Leon M.