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This romance with suspense piece has the elements we will find in the films of it's two emerging stars. Powell is doing world weary and charming. Bow is the jazz baby madcap heiress.
They tangle with gamblers, crooks and cops, hovering around star Mills. Director Hogan is more in his element here than with the examples of his sound work that get aired. The Paramount mounting is at its most glossy and, as with the Schulberg Bow films, makes little attempt at plausibility - right down to secret passages for the heavies to operate in.
It must have been a big night at the movies in 1925 and it's still an oddity which repays attention.
They tangle with gamblers, crooks and cops, hovering around star Mills. Director Hogan is more in his element here than with the examples of his sound work that get aired. The Paramount mounting is at its most glossy and, as with the Schulberg Bow films, makes little attempt at plausibility - right down to secret passages for the heavies to operate in.
It must have been a big night at the movies in 1925 and it's still an oddity which repays attention.
- Mozjoukine
- Dec 17, 2003
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