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THE BAD MAN (First National)
^ITH the drama handled Hghtly throughout, Walter Huston stands out in bold relief as the starring menace of this story of Rio Grande ranch raids by Lopez, the bandit.
Huston is the Latin-American Robin Hood who swoops down on the American settlement to rob and steal a girl, but changes his mind to become a diplomat when he finds things in a terrible mess.
O. P. Heggie furnishes the laughter as Uncle Henry, while James Rennie gives a worth-while performance as Gilbert Jones, young rancher who eliminates a husband (Sidney Blackmer) and wins the widow, played by Dorothy Revier,
BILLY THE KID (M-G-M)
JOHNNY MACK BROWN enjoys his first taste of stardom in this saga of the famous killer of frontier days which Director King Vidor has converted into a talkie.
There has been no more colorful character in the criminal annals of the plains and deserts than this youth who began life as a cattle rustler, tried to go straight, then killed the man who sought the life of his employer.
Kay Johnson furnishes the love interest, and it is in her room, while he bathes her face in kisses, that Billy the Kid comes to the end of the trail, shot down by Wallace Beery, sheriff and rival for Kay's attentions.
THE SEA GOD (Paramount)
ACTUAL ocean bottom photography and sound recording L are brought to the cinema for the first time in this heman melodrama of the South Sea Islands, in which we again find Fay Wray offering splendid support to Richard Arlen. Eugene Pallette makes the most of his comedy role.
Arlen, in diving outfit, is searching the Pacific's floor for pearls when cannibals attack his ship, killing his crew and capturing Fay, his sweetheart, and Pallette, his mate. Cutting the line that holds him to the vessel, he walks ashore, where the natives look upon him in his queer iron helmet as a God of the seas.
INSIDE THE LINES (RKO)
THIS is a cleverly devised and baffling tale of international intrigues at Gibraltar during the World War and presents a new and delightful Betty Compson.
It is a story of a great love between Betty and Ralph Forbes in a German village on the Rhine.
Suspense runs rampant throughout the picture. The struggle of Betty and Forbes between love and duty, and the attempts to save one another from the firing squad bring about an astonishing climax.
Sequences depicting the carnage of battle are not in evidence, but there are many tremendous emotional scenes.
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