Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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84 Critical THE LAWYER'S SECRET Paramount An absorbing drama, splendidly enacted by a cast composed of most of your Paramount favorites. Especially interesting is Charles Rogers in his first serious role, that of a weakling involved in a murder — unsympathetic, but ex-Buddy puts it over — big. Clive Brook and Richard Arlen are excellent. Fay Wray and Jean Arthur appeal. WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Fox The boys — Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt — are back again, this time in a comedy Cook's tour, visiting Sweden, Nicaragua, France, and Greta Nissen. But the McLaglenLowe adventures in amour are beginning to bore. It's all old stuff now. El Brendel supplies some laughs, Greta the beauty. Too rough for family trade. UP FOR MURDER Universal The talker version of the silent film, "Man, Woman, and Sin," in which the late Jeanne Eagels appeared with John Gilbert, has its big moments, with Lew Ayres as the artless cub reporter and Genevieve Tobin as the worldly society editor whom he idealizes. Mostly good, with Ayres appealing and Miss Tobin exquisite. SCREENLAND Comment NIGHT NURSE Warner Brothers Or, behind hospital doors? Not at all. "Night Nurse" is a nice nurse (thrilling Barbara Stanwyck) who stumbles into dark doings in a sinister household, and devotes herself to saving the kiddies and shaming mama and papa. Clark Gable is an exciting menace, Ben Lyon an heroic bootlegger, Joan Blondell the comedy relief — and what a relief! NIGHT ANGEL Paramount The star and director who made that grand "Devil's Holiday" have failed dismally to do it again. Nancy Carroll, in unbecoming moods and costumes and coiffures, can't help being unconvincing in this stagey melodrama, which Edmund Goulding, believe it or not, wrote and directed. Even that good actor, Frederic March, fails to register. THE SHE-WOLF Universal May Robson, grand old lady from the stage, dominates this film and makes it worth-while. She plays a shrewd business woman, hard-boiled even with her children, neglecting their happiness in her great thirst for power, but eventually softening. Crammed with hokum! Lawrence Gray, Frances Dade and James Hall are pleasantly present.