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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)

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The Most Dangerous Game
Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Shoedsack
Written by James Ashmore Creeland from a short story by Richard Connell
1932/US
Produced by Merion C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack; Distributed by RKO
IMDb page
Repeat viewing/Amazon Prime rental

> Bob: This world’s divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted.
> Luckily, I’m the hunter. Nothing can change that.

I’ve seen this film several times through the years and, if anything, my
affection for it has grown.  The filmmakers make every minute count in this 63
minute thriller/horror film.

Bob (Joel McCrea is a big game hunter.  As the movie opens he tells the rest of
his party that hunting is sport for both the hunter and the hunted.  He soon
will find out how wrong he is when their fancy yacht is shipwrecked on a small
island.

The island is ruled by psycho-sadist hunter Zaroff.  Bob is introduced to the
Tartars who work for him and shown his ravenous savage dogs.  Zaroff has
arranged that his island benefit from numerous shipwrecks it seems.  Currently
Eve (Fay Wray) and her recklessly alcoholic brother (Walter) are in
rersidencedd.  Eve takes Bob aside and says that something is wrong.  The
shipwrecked sailors that were there when the two arrived have disappeared.

Zaroff is excited to meet Bob, having read his books. Zaroff says that his
trophy room is open to visitors only right before they go on a hunt.  Martin
asks to see it and is never seen again.  Eve and Bob break into it and gasp at
the gruesome mounting of disappeared humans therein.

Now it is Bob’s turn to become prey.  The deal is that the hunt will begin at
midnight.  If Bob can survive until dawn, he will win and he and Eve can depart
on the launch.  If Zaroff kills Bob he will take Fay Wray and make her his own.
 This would be a fate worse than death and she decides to accompany Bob.  Bob is
armed only with a large knife.  Zaroff has access to an arsenal of unique
weapons. The remainder of the film is non-stop action as the pair surmount one
scary obstacle after another.  Noble Johnson plays the Count’s main lackey.



I’ve always liked this one because Joel McCrae runs around in rags displaying
his very attractive chest.  But it’s a cracking action movie as well and moves
at an admirable pace.

There is nothing “early talkie” about this.  McCrea and Wray are fine.  Leslie
Banks goes way over the top in a manner that suits the material  perfectly.  
 Max Steiner composed one of the very first movie score to  fully integrate the
musical score with the images on-screen and to score individual scenes for their
content and create leitmotifs for individual characters, as opposed to simply
providing vaguely appropriate mood music.  Nothing high brow but awfully
entertaining.  Recommended.

The movie was filmed concurrently with King Kong (1933) during the breaks for
special effects work.  The same sets were used for the swampy forest setting in
which the hunt takes place.



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PLATINUM BLONDE (1931)

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Bea
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Platinum Blonde
Directed by Frank Capra
Written by Robert Riskin from a story by Harry Chandlee and Douglas W. Churchill
1931/US
Columbia Pictures
IMDb page
Repeat viewing/Amazon Prime rental

> Conroy, The Editor: Anne Schuyler’s in the blue book; you’re not even in the
> phone book. Think that one over… sucker!

Capra delivers a solid newspaper/romcom picture with plenty of snappy dialogue.

Stew Smith (Robert Williams) is the wise-cracking star reporter on a big city
newspaper. Michael Schuyler is trying to avoid a scandal about his chorus girl
girlfriend who has settled a breach of promise lawsuit but has refused to return
his love letters.  Rumors of this are floating around and Stew’s editor sends
him to the swanky Schuyler family manse to verify the story.  The Schuyler’s
lawyer tries to bribe him to not print the story.  Stew now has his
confirmation.  At the same time, he is introduced to Michael’s sister Anne (Jean
Harlow).  It is lust at first sight.



Lust turns to love and Stew and Anne marry.  Anne’s family is dismayed but Anne
reassures them.  It is then he finds that Anne expects him to give up his old
life and friends, live in the mansion, and accompany Anne to her many social
engagements.

Now Robert has a long-time colleague at the paper who is called Gallagher
(Loretta Young).  They are confidants and trade snappy banter.  What Robert
doesn’t know is that she is in love with him.  He hasn’t really seen her as a
woman.  With Claud Allister as a valet.



I liked this one a lot due to the snappy dialogue, expertly delivered by the
very appealing Williams and company. IMO one of the best newspaper pictures and
contains my favorite performance ever by Loretta Young.  Harlow was still
developing her acting chops so she is somewhat stiff and at any rate feels
miscast as a socialite.

I found myself wondering what happened to Williams. Turns out this was his first
major role and he died of peritonitis 4 days after the picture’s release.





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BLONDE CRAZY (1931)

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Bea
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Blonde Crazy
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Written by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright
1931/US
Warner Bros.
IMDb page
Repeat viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 8

> Peggy: And let me tell you something about this place. I’ve been here six
> months and I know! For the love of Mike, stay away from those bellhops. They
> can’t do a girlie any good. And the worst monkey of them all is that guy, Bert
> Harris. He’s dynamite. Everybody in this joint owes him money from those
> crooked dice of his.
> Ann Roberts: He can’t do me any harm. I haven’t any money and I don’t shoot
> craps.
> Peggy: Oh, yeah? Well, maybe you have something else he can use.

Joan Blondell and Jimmy Cagney make a perfect couple of grifters.

Cocky bellhop Bert Harris (Cagney) is famous for dirty tricks at the hotel he
works for in a small midwest town.  When Anne Roberts (Joan Blondell) comes
looking for a job he lands her one even though the position had already been
filler.  He keeps being fresh and she keeps slapping him.  But he talks her into
working a swindle on one of the guests and they become partners in crime, she
more reluctantly than he.



They use their ill-gotten gains to move on to bigger fish in Chicago.  But Bert
is not quite so smart as he thinks. With Louis Calhern as another con artist and
Ray Milland as Anne’s suitor.



This is a very pre-Code and extremely fun movie.  Cagney and Blondell have
enough energy to light up a big city.  Everything is kept moving along well.
 Despite the crime theme the tone is nice and light.





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EX-LADY (1932)

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Bea
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Ex-Lady
Directed by Robert Florey
Written by David Boehm; story by Robert Riskin and Edith Fitzgerald
1933/US
Warner Bros.
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 7

> Hugo Van Hugh: Oh, those modern young people. Give me the old fashioned girl.
> Do you remember the bustle?
> Don Peterson: Do you?
> Hugo Van Hugh: No, more’s the pity. I remember the hobble skirt. Oh, there was
> an invention! The hobble skirt – they couldn’t walk fast nor far in the hobble
> skirt. You could trust them. And now… Iris is gone.

This remake feature Bette Davis still in the blonde ingenue mode that she fought
so hard to get past.  She’s quite good nonetheless but give me Barbara Stanwyck
in the original.

This is basically a remake of Frank Capra’s Illicit (1931) starring Stanwyck.
 Helen Bauer (Davis) is a successful commercial artist.  Don Peterson (Gene
Raymond ) runs a fledgling advertising agency.  Don spends most night at Helen’s
apartment.  Her parents are furious. Don is tired of sneaking around but Helen
believes marriage takes the fun and spontaneity out of relationships.  She’s
also not interested in having children.  But finally she relents.



Most of Helen’s predictions come true.  So she declares the wedding experiment a
flop and separates from him.  She doesn’t stop seeing him though and soon he is
a frequent visitor at her new apartment.  The separation gives Don the
opportunity to respond to a married lady’s advances.  Helen begins to date Nick
Malvyn (Monroe Owsley).  Both partners are extremely jealous.  I won’t say how
this works out.  But I bet you will need only one guess.  With Frank McHugh as
an intellectual (!) and Claire Dunn as his bored wife.



This is definitely pre-Code but is somewhat tamer than Illicit (1931).  It’s a
solid production and everyone, even the always bland Raymond, are fine.  A short
enjoyable watch.

Bette Davis sure wore clothes well for such a petite woman.



 

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EMPLOYEES’ ENTRANCE (1933)

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Bea
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Employees’ Entrance
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Written by Robert Presnell Sr. from a play by David Boehm
1933/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 7

> Kurt Anderson: When a man outlives his usefulness, he ought to jump out a
> window.

Another,  better expose of ruthless capitalism has similarities to Skyscraper
Souls (1932).

Kurt Anderson (Warren William) is the workaholic General Manager of an upscale
department store.  Anderson’s motto is “smash or be smashed”.  He has no
hesitation in firing loyal long-term employees whom he considers to be “dead
wood” or ruin a supplier that misses a deadline by one day.  His behavior with
the ladies is equally deplorable.  He believes that love and marriage are
unnecessary distractions from business.  Senior management is appalled by
Anderson’s behavior and are trying to get the Board of Directors to oust him.
 Anderson will stop at nothing to stay at the helm.

One day Anderson comes across Madeline Walters (Loretta Young) hiding out in one
of the store’s bedroom displays.  She is desperate for work and Anderson gives
her a job but not before taking advantage of her.



Madeleine is hired as a salesgirl/model in the dress department.  Sexy Polly
Dale (Alice White) shows her the the ropes.  Later, Madeline falls for
up-and-comer colleague Martin West (Wallace Ford).  Martin impresses Anderson
with his idea to market boxer shorts to women (!) and Anderson makes him his
executive assistant.  Anderson expects Martin to be at his beck and call 24/7.

Before long the Madeleine and Walter want to marry.  They hold off for awhile
but then secretly marry.  But they can’t keep the secret for long.   As part of
his effort to keep his job Anderson has already doubled Polly’s salary in order
to use her to “distract” a rival executive.  Next he attempts to wreck Madeleine
and Walter’s marriage.  I will stop here. With Ruth Donnelly as a secretary.

I thought this was quite entertaining. The story moves right along and has only
a couple of plot threads to follow.  William is good at playing bastards.  Young
looks lovely in her Orry-Kelly gowns.  She models a backless fringed wedding
gown that is something to behold!



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SKYSCRAPER SOULS (1932)

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Bea
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Skyscraper Souls
Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Written by C. Gardner Sullivan from a novel by Faith Baldwin
1932/US
Cosmopolitan Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 7

> David ‘Dave’ Dwight: They laughed at me when I said I wanted a hundred-story
> building. They said it wouldn’t hold together. But I had the courage and the
> vision and it’s MINE and I own it! It goes halfway to hell and right up to
> heaven and it’s beautiful!

Director Selwyn tries to stuff an expose of capitalism run rampant, a love
triangle, and a couple of other romances into 90 minutes with mixed success.

Dave Duke (Warren William) is obsessed with the skyscraper he owns and is named
after him.  He needs capital to continue to own the building and will resort to
low tricks to keep it.  Duke is a great womanizer.  He has an open marriage with
his wife (Hedda Hopper) who lives in Europe.  Currently he is having an affair
with his executive assistant Sarah Dennis (Verree) Teasdale whom he keeps at
arms length by claiming his wife won’t divorce him.  Soon he begins to mess with
Sarah’s secretary and protege Lynn Harding (Maureen O’Sullivan).



Meanwhile, Lynn is being pursued by bank teller Tom (Norman Foster).  She gives
him the cold shoulder initially but soon begins to date him.  They fall in love
but she tells him she can’t marry a man without money.  Then Dave pounces.
 There are a couple of other unresolved romances – one between Jake Sorenson
(Jean Hersholt) and prostitute Jenny (Anita Page) and one between Slim (Wallace
Ford) and the perpetually hard up Myra (Helen Coburn).  I’ll stop here.  The
film gets more and more lurid until its stunning climax.



This movie simply has too much plot.  It could have cut a couple of unnecessary
romances that only confuse the point.  Then maybe we would have the time to
explore  Maureen O’Sullivan’s sudden and disconcerting change from good girl to
bad girl and back again.  Warren William’s character is so despicable that you
can only applaud his fate.  We do get a nice art deco office building and some
pretty good acting.



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THE HATCHET MAN (1932)

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Bea
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The Hatchet Man
Directed by William A. Wellman
Written by J. Grubb Alexander from a play by Achmed Abdullah and David Belasco
1932/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 7

> Opening Title Card: San Francisco’s Chinatown of fifteen years ago had the
> largest Oriental population of any colony outside China. Its forty thousand
> yellow residents were divided into various political factions known as
> ‘Tongs”, each governed by a President and Council. These various Tongs were
> almost constantly at war, so the office of “Hatchet Man” was one of special
> importance. The honorable title of “Hatchet Man” was passed from father to son
> by inheritance only, and it was he, with the aid of his sharp axe, who
> dispensed the justice of the great god Buddha.

If you can get past a ton of racial stereotyping and exclusive use of
yellowface, this is an OK gangster/love triangle film with another fine
performance by Edward G. Robinson.

The setting is San Francisco’s Chinatown.  Chinatown is full of opposing tongs
that are at all out war.  The elders of a tong send for Wong Low Get (Robinson)
and his hatchet.  He arrives from San Francisco only to find that the man he is
to murder is Sun Yat Ming (J. Carrol Naish), his boyhood friend.  Wong protests
but finally goes to call on Sun.  Sun already knows the jig is up.  He shows
Wong the will which leaves him everything including his young daughter’s hand in
marriage.  Then he calmly accepts his fate.



Segue to 15 years later.  Wong has become a wealthy businessman and the girl has
grown up to be Loretta Young.  Both are thoroughly Westernized.  Loretta loves a
good time but Wong proposes and she obediently accepts.

Eventually Wong is called on to use his hatchet again on a rival tong member in
Sacramento.  Wong’s bodyguard thug Harry En Hi (Leslie Fenton) takes his absence
as an opportunity to make Loretta his own.  What will happen when Wong discovers
Loretta in a passionate embrace with Harry?  I’ll stop here with plenty of plot
yet to come.



I enjoyed this but BOY if you cannot get past the racial stereotyping this movie
is not for you.



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MASSACRE (1934)

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Bea
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Massacre
Directed by Alan Crosland
Written by Ralph Block and Sheridan Gibney
1934/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6

> Chief Joe Thunderhorse: You used to shoot the Indian down. Now you cheat him
> and starve him and kill him off by dirt and disease. It’s a massacre, any way
> you take it!

I enjoyed this social justice film about the plight of Native Americans.

Chief Joe Thunderhorse (Richard Barthelmess) is a Sioux who was sent off the
reservation to college.  Thereafter he became the headliner in a Wild West Show.
 He is wealthy and has white girlfriend Norma (Claire Dodd).  She appears to be
collecting novelty sex partners and has her bedroom filled with Native American
artifacts for the moment.  Joe has not been back to the reservation in 15 years
and  Norma is disappointed when he can’t explain the meaning of some objects in
her collection.

Joe’s family writes to say that his father is dying.  So he sets off in his
luxury automobile to the reservation for a couple of weeks.  One of the first
people he meets is Lydia (Ann Dvorak) and he is immediately attracted to her.
 Lydia is not impressed and says Joe should go away because he will never
understand the oppressive conditions the Sioux suffer.

Ann Dvorak does not appreciate Richard Barthelmess’s get up or citified ways.

Joe does begin to understand when the corrupt Federal overseer of the
reservation Elihu P. Quissenberry (Dudley Digges – was there ever a more nasty
villain?) and his cronies attempt to milk his father’s estate and his sister
gets raped by the tribe’s greedy white undertaker (Sidney Toler).  The officials
see Joe only as a Sioux and a second class citizen. Joe is then out for revenge.
 He also becomes a fighter for justice and wins Norma as a friend and ally.  Can
he overcome the massive odds against him?



I thought this was very good.  The acting and pacing are excellent and it tells
a story that had been ignored by Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans.

It’s not particularly pre-Code except for the bedroom scene with Claire Dodd and
the theme of the sister’s rape.



Most non-PC trailer I’ve seen in a while.  Claire Dodd’s description of the plot
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MANDALAY (1934)

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Mandalay
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Austin Parker and Charles Kenyon; story by Paul Hervy Fox
1934/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6

> Madame Lacalles: Well, I don’t suppose it’s any use in my telling you. You’ll
> have to find out for yourself. But if you’ve got any sense, you’ll make the
> best of it. You’ll go on living. And before you get through, you’ll find out
> that it’s easier to make men do what you want them to, than it is to fall in
> love, and have *them* make a fool of *you.* Anyway, you’re pretty enough to go
> a long way – if you use your head.

Director Curtiz managed to fit a complex plot in a 60 minute film and to do it
well.

The setting is Rangoon, Burma.  Gun runner Tony Evans (Ricardo Cortez) has
pulled into port on his yacht. He is accompanied by beautiful Russian refugee
Tanya Bodoroff (Kay Francis), who is madly in love with him.  Tony needs capital
to make his next gun purchase.  He turns to Nick (Warner Oland), the owner of a
luxurious nightclub/brothel, for a loan.  Nick refuses to make a loan but he
will give Tony the money in exchange for Kay Francis, whom he expects to be the
main draw at the club.  The unscrupulous Tony agrees.



Tanya takes awhile to adapt to her new job as “hostess”/entertainer.  Once she
does though she learns the art of seduction and blackmail.  This skill finally
allows her to escape from her life of degradation and head off by riverboat to
Mandalay where she hopes to make a fresh start.



She meets alcoholic doctor Dr. Gregory Burton on the boat.  He also has a past
he is trying to escape.  They become confidants and then Gregory declares his
love.  While this is going on fugitive scumbag Tony boards the boat and tries to
take up again with Tanya, who is now using the name Marjorie Lang.  I’ll stop
here.  Rest assured the drama only amps up.



I thought this was good in all aspects.  Most of these short movies try to cram
in too much plot.  This also has a complex plot but the film tells its story
well.  I think this was the first time I saw Lyle Talbot play anything other
than a thug and he did quite well as did all the actors.  I must say I prefer
Kay Francis in her flirtatious, comedic mode, though.  Her Orry-Kelly gowns are
to die for.

When the Hays Code came into effect Joe Breen declared that the film could not
be fixed or reissued because the central character was an immoral woman.



 




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DOWNSTAIRS (1932)

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Downstairs
Directed by Monta Bell
Written by Lenore Coffee and Melville Baker from a story by John Gilbert
1932/US
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
IMDb page
First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6

> Albert, the Baron’s Butler: Life downstairs is very simple. But, up there, the
> rules are different.

John Gilbert pushed making this film to revive his career.  I wonder why he
thought his thoroughly amoral character would appeal to audiences.

The setting is a country in Central Europe between the World Wars.  Aristocracy
still thrives.  The film opens with a wedding hosted by the Baron and Baroness
for Albert , their chauffeur, and Anna (Virginia), their lady’s maid.  Karl
(Gilbert), the new chauffeur, strolls in and it is immediately clear that
servile decorum is not for him.  In fact, he is a born trouble-maker.  His first
move is on Anna, whom he relentlessly pursues.

Paul Lukas walks into his room and finds John Gilbert attempting to seduce his
new wife Virginia Bruce.

Gilbert then moves on to seduce the Baroness and even the old cook.  He also
lies and steals freely.

John Gilbert makes nice with past conquest Hedda Hopper and future conquest Olga
Baclanova

If this had starred Ronald Coleman the character would have been portrayed as a
charming rapscallion.  Gilbert plays him more like an uncouth bad boy whose
looks have helped him get along all his life.  I found the character unlikeable
and his actions deplorable.  So this is not a movie I love.  That said, the
acting, even Gilbert’s, is fine and it does have that MGM glamour going for it.



 




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