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SCREENLAND
Screenlands Critic Really Sees the Pictures!
The Nuisance M-G-M
It's no secret to readers of this department that each new Lee Tracy film is "the best Tracy has ever made." I know. It's true. I am a Tracy addict and everything he does is superlative to me. But I really think that this new one of his IS his best, and you can take it or leave it, but I'd advise you to take it, for "The Nuisance" is elegant entertainment. It's a rare and rowdy melodramatic comedy about an ambulancechaser — a trick lawyer who handles accident cases in his inimitable way. And until you have seen Tracy in action you have no idea how funny this morbid idea can be. It sounds terrible; actually, on the screen it is a laugh riot. Tracy is surrounded by a perfect cast: Frank Morgan is priceless as a prop doctor; Madge Evans is simply charming as the girl who very nearly wrecks our hero's questionable career; and Charles Butterworth has some excruciating moments. Recommended to the uninhibited as grand fun. Must see!
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Warners
The Warrior's Husband
Fox
What entertainment this is! If you enjoyed "42nd. Street" -as who didn't? — you'll have an even better time at /'Gold Diggers of 1933." It's a super-show. In fact, it's so big, so brilliant, so packed with human interest and pulchritudinous appeal and glittering ensembles, you'll have to attend more than once to be able to say that you really have seen it. Yes, I hate to say it, but it's colossal — easily. There's much of that gay, eager, ingenuous quality that made "42nd. St." the smash musical of all time; and there's an even more impressive cast; and there's one number that eclipses, absolutely, anything yet shown in screen revues: Pettin' in the Park. Ruby Keeler repeats her dazzling and disarming personal triumph. Joan Blondell blazes. Aline McMahon was never more amusing. Warren William lends dignity ; and Dick Powell comes into his own as the new "personality boy" of pictures. Dick is on his blithe way to stardom.
Here's a picture for you jaded movie-goers who are always complaining that movies are all alike. You've never seen anything like "The Warrior's Husband"! From the stage play of the same name — and a long way from, according to some critics — that same stage play in which Katharine Hepburn made her Broadway hit — this film is a lavish, sumptuous, and at the same time completely rowdy comedy with a stunning cast. Consider Elissa Landi, looking perfectly gorgeous in her fantastic trappings of an undefeated Amazon ; Marjorie Rambeau, as Queen of the wild gals, handsome as ever, and even more amusing; Ernest Truex with curly whiskers and his inimitable comedy manner; David Manners, extremely personable as a victorious Greek; and hundreds of decorative Amazons in fine fighting trim; and then add racy modern dialogue, and you'll have some idea. La Landi is warmly human and delightful. Fun for adult film patrons.
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