Screenland (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)
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Screenland's Tabloid Guide to the Current Pictures
Class A:
Outward Bound. Warner Brothers. An interesting film with an unusual theme. Beryl Mercer, Leslie Howard, Helen Chandler and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., excellent.*
Her Man. Pathe. Helen Twelvetrees comes through with a noteworthy performance. Phillips Holmes and Ricardo Cortez fine male support.*
What a Widow. United Artists. Gorgeous Gloria in a corking comedy and smart clothes. You'll like Gloria, the comedienne.*
Liliom. Fox. Molnar's play well acted by Charles Farrell, Estelle Taylor and Rose Hobart and directed by Frank Borzage.*
Girl of the Golden West. First National. Ann Harding goes western with much success. You'll like this talker.*
Whoopee. United Artists. Lavish production, beautiful girls and Eddie Cantor wise-cracking. A good show.*
Abraham Lincoln. United Artists. The life of Lincoln portrayed splendidly by Walter Huston and very well directed by D. W. Griffith.
Old English. Warner Brothers. Another George Arliss classic. Add this to your must list.
Hell's Angels. Caddo. Aviation epic. Magnificent flying feats and Ben Lyon, Jean Harlow and James Hall.
The Bad Man. First National. A fascinating portrayal by Walter Huston as a Mexican bandit. Entertaining.
Moby Dick. Warner Brothers. John Barrymore's best talker, this sound version of "The Sea Beast."
Monte Carlo. Paramount. Charming musical romance with Jeanette MacDonald and Jack Buchanan, directed by Lubitsch.
The Big House. Metro. Thrilling melodrama about prison riots, with Wallace Beery, Chester Morris and Robert Montgomery.
Class B:
Good News. Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Bessie Love and Gus Shy, great in muchimitated musical comedy of college life.
The Sea God. Paramount. Pearl diving adventures in the South Seas with Richard Arlen and Fay Wray.
Clara Bow and her boyfriends, Charles Ruggles, Ralph Forbes and Skeet Gallagher, in "Her Wedding Night" — hilarious farce.
Three Faces East. Warner Brothers. Constance Bennett and Eric von Stroheim, splendid in vocalized version of the wellknown secret service play.*
Love in the Rough. Metro GoldwynMayer. Golf, music and romance by Robert Montgomery with comedy by Benny Rubin. Fore !
Sweethearts on Parade. Columbia. Alice White rescued by the Marines when the villain pursues her. Unconvincing.
Love Your Neighbor. Educational. Charlotte 'Legs' Greenwood, very funny in a comedy short of domestic disorders. Plenty of laughs.
Don't Bite Your Dentist. Mack Sennctl Comedy. Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard cavort through a comedy short which has many funny sequences.
Africa Speaks. Columbia. Thrilling and interesting travelogue, with lions as the 'menace.' See this one.*
Call of the Flesh. Metro Goldivyn Mayer. Ramon Novarro at his best, aided by Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence and Renee Adoree.*
The Sea Wolf. Fox. A fine performance by Milton Sills in a virile melodrama of the sea. His final film.*
Let's Go Native. Paramount. Funfest with Jack Oakie, Kay Francis, Skeet Gallagher, Jeannette MacDonald and William Austin. You'll like it.*
Her Wedding Night. Paramount. Clara Bow in a hilarious farce, her best talker so far, with Charlie Ruggles a riot, as usual.
Road to Paradise. First National. Loretta Young plays a dual role in a mystery drama. Fair entertainment.
Dough Boys. Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Buster Keaton wins the World War, the girl, Sally Eilers, and a lot of laughs with this one.
Way of All Men. Warner Brothers. You'll recognize this as "The Deluge," a former silent film. It's dull even though Dong Fairbanks, Jr., is the hero.
A Lady Surrenders. Universal. Good entertainment and good acting by Conrad Nagel, Genevieve Tobin, Rose Hobart and Basil Rathbone. Don't miss this.
Big Boy. Warner Brothers. If you like Al Jolson don't pass this by. Nice comedy and musical numbers put over with the Jolson technique.
Man Trouble. Fox. Another racketeer film worthwhile because of capable performances by Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills.
Last of the Duanes. Fox. A typical Zane Grey western, with the stalwart George O'Brien as the hero.
Outside the Law. Universal. Underworld melodrama with plenty of action supplied by Mary Nolan, Owen Moore and Rockcliffe Fellows.
The Office Wife. Warner Brothers. The 'poor working girl' gets a break. Very pleasing picture with Dorothy Mackaill and Lewis Stone.*
The Squealer. Columbia. Heavy drama done well with Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Matt Moore, Zasu Pitts and little Davey Lee.*
Leathernecking. RKO. Light comedy with music and marines. Benny Rubin, Louise Fazenda and Ned Sparks hand out the laughs.*
Sweet Kitty Bellairs. Warner Brothers. Nice, old-fashioned film but it has been in moth-balls too long. Claudia Dell is charming.*
Follow Thru. Paramount. Fun on the golf links. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Nancy Carroll share the romance ; Zelma O'Neal and Eugene Pallette the comedy
honors.*
The Spoilers. Paramount. If only for the 'big fight' scene between Gary Cooper and William Boyd this picture is worth
seeing.*
Dixiana. RKO. Elaborate settings and Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler can't overcome the poor plot.*
*Reviewed in this issue.