Reviews

Metro's answer to the gangster movies made by Warner's is exciting film fare.The film marks the beginning of the Powell-Loy partnership which made legend in their next pairing.Gable's portrayal of a sympathetic gangster is just as good as any of Cagney's at Warner's.Great comic turn by Nat Pendleton as Gable's not too bright henchmen.

A tolerable romance/war-actioner with the stars doing their best in a boring love story.The movie comes alive only in the war scenes.The interplay between the male stars works better than the romance bit.Roscoe Karns is impressive in supporting part as Cooper's war buddy

A good entry in the early prison-drama cycle.Spencer Tracy is good as the cocky inmate.Arthur Byron has an unusual part as the sympathetic warden of Sing Sing.There aren't too many of them in movies.The action sequences in the movie are expertly handled by Curtiz.Bette Davis does a good job in a small part.Louis Calhern is suitably slimy.The ending is typically of the times in which it were made.

A very entertaining movie with Gable and Harlow at their best.They really shine in their roles.Also a good performance by a young Mary Astor.It's easy to see that Clark Gable consolidated his newly won fame with this film.He shows his magnificent charisma on the screen perhaps for the first time to full effect.Harlow matches him all the way.An inspired pairing.

The Mask of Fu Manchu is a real campy outing.A silly adventure movie which in some ways resembles the Indiana Jones movies.Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy seem to have a great time with their evil characters.It's also surprising to see Lewis Stone as the hero in this one.Its production values are of high standard,which gives the film a good look.

This movie seems today a bit stiff and slow,but the story is still fascinating.John Barrymore gives a marvelous performance as the fatalistic thief and Joan Crawford is utterly beguiling in one of her most naturalistic roles.Greta Garbo's performance would have suited the silent screen better than it does here.Lionel Barrymore is just right for his part as a dying and meek clerk on a last spree.As the desperate and unlikeable businessman Wallace Beery is perhaps a bit too hammy.

A very disturbing experience.Although the movie's sympathy lies with the physically afflicted sideshow-freaks,it feels a little exploitative. It would have been a great classic as a silent.The silly dialogue really kills it.But the climax of the movie..it's the most haunting perhaps in the history of cinema.

Time hasn't been good to the first Tarzan of the sound period.A silly adventure story with a lot of back-projection of earlier location- shooting in Africa. Johnny Weissmuller does a good job in portraying the man raised by simians.It's a rather primitive role with barely no lines.Maureen O'Sullivan is rather annoying.

Perhaps the best of the early gangster flicks of the thirties.Magnificently shot by Dev Jennings and directed by William Wellman.And it has young James Cagney in a great performance,which made him a star.This classic has aged well.Thoroughly enjoyable

This filmed version of Noel Coward's play isn't too bad to watch.Anyone who's experienced a love-hate relationship will find the story very amusing.Shearer and Montgomery are good in their roles.Quite surprising to find a story like this in a thirties Hollywood film.

The movie that started Warner's gangster-cycle has dated a lot since it came out over seventy years ago.The acting is perhaps a bit too hammy for modern tastes,but the performance of Edward G.Robinson still retains its power.Some of director LeRoy's storytelling devices may seem as cliche after being used in countless movies dealing with organized crime,but in the early thirties there had never been anything like it. It's fun to watch Thomas Jackson's laconic cop. Pretty good show after all.