Post by rmichaelpyle on May 26, 2009 4:24:12 GMT -6
Watched two last night:
"My Marriage" (1935) with Claire Trevor, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, and Paul Kelly. This was a dud, though it certainly shouldn't have been. Kent Taylor got the girl in the end, but it should have been the cop, Paul Kelly! Pauline Frederick, the ex-silent star, reminded both my wife and me of Beulah Bondi in this one, although Beulah Bondi was a better actress, just not as well known to the general public. This one involved gangsters, murder, and everything else, but concentrated on high-faluting family versus a girl from the other side situation and let it be the focus when it shouldn't have! Just a dud. Too bad, too, because it could have been otherwise.
"Convicted" (1930) with Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, and Richard Tucker. Okay, try to imagine Jameson Thomas as a romantic (Choke, cough, choke!!!!) lead, a world class private dick solving a murder crime on a ship crossing and marrying the girl in the end. Come on, what was Christy Cabanne thinking when he directed this? I guess he needed to eat, too. It was fun for a while, but credulity has limits even a guy with a film curiosity like I have finally reaches. Glad I watched it, but it was poverty row at the beginning; now it's such a slum only cockroaches would find any savor to the 'loid - that's celluloid to the uninitiated to la cucaracha lingo...
"My Marriage" (1935) with Claire Trevor, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, and Paul Kelly. This was a dud, though it certainly shouldn't have been. Kent Taylor got the girl in the end, but it should have been the cop, Paul Kelly! Pauline Frederick, the ex-silent star, reminded both my wife and me of Beulah Bondi in this one, although Beulah Bondi was a better actress, just not as well known to the general public. This one involved gangsters, murder, and everything else, but concentrated on high-faluting family versus a girl from the other side situation and let it be the focus when it shouldn't have! Just a dud. Too bad, too, because it could have been otherwise.
"Convicted" (1930) with Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, and Richard Tucker. Okay, try to imagine Jameson Thomas as a romantic (Choke, cough, choke!!!!) lead, a world class private dick solving a murder crime on a ship crossing and marrying the girl in the end. Come on, what was Christy Cabanne thinking when he directed this? I guess he needed to eat, too. It was fun for a while, but credulity has limits even a guy with a film curiosity like I have finally reaches. Glad I watched it, but it was poverty row at the beginning; now it's such a slum only cockroaches would find any savor to the 'loid - that's celluloid to the uninitiated to la cucaracha lingo...
