Judge — July 28, 1928 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE UDGWG THeMOVIE® By PARE LORENTZ omner, restrained, and convincing, the movie The réle of the Scarzi, was given a marvel- S adaptation of Bartlett Cormack’s melodrama, ous performance by Edward Robinson last: winter, “The Racket,” is unusually good. and Lewis Wolheim docs it full justice on the sercen, It has as its villain not a Jean Lafitte, who quotes He is the outstanding character in the picture. Credit — | Anatole France, but an illiterate gangster who has must t d political control of a corrupt metrop given to Director Milestone for the unusual is restraint put upon his cast, and they gave good ac- through his bloody and successful evasion of the count of themselves with the exception of the two men Kighteenth Amendment. The hero is not a booted — assigned to do the reporters, and they were evidently Northwest) Mountic, who carries a picture of his so stirred with the thought that they were the comedy mother glued to his pearl-handled revolver, but a relief, they fi it necessary te pop up before the veteran mick cop who refuses to allow a vicious crew camera at every opportunity with all the OV waiety of post-war killers to drive him from his profession. of a couple of chorus boys hoofing on their tirst. job. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable use this is one of those movies that come alon in a transatlantic flight. The play was unusu: in that it was a you want to take down your hair and have a good cry, just drop into the nearest ice palace and look and it is to the over the “Hit of the Show.” Knowing that Joe everlasting credit of the author that he did not let his | Brown has been a veteran musical-com heroine become lady of th one-wom. dy hero, the her from a producers with their sly cunning gave him another oiden-haired little Nell musical when he adapted his manuscript. Hard-boiled she — fair to was and hard-boiled she rema nedy story and made him a star. It is only and he valuable man if by any chance he y that Brown does very well indee ns. should prove a Having seen the play and regarded it as one of the — a crack at a de | tJ play ins nt scenario, best melodramas of recent years, it is difficult to This affair is filled with report the movie with an unprejudiced eye, but it is about the st possible to report that Director Lewis Milestone fol- the sto: I the hokum ever written nd its people, but the high point of for me was an incident that involved the lowed the sequences of the play as faithfully as it heroine. This modern young miss is just ready was possible and that naturally the few defects of — step off at St. Bartholomew's and she decides to at- the play again manifest themselves. The most promi- tend her fiancé’s bachelor dinner. Lo and behold! nent of these, as was pointed out by George Jean she sneaks up on the Nathan some wecks ago, was the réle of the cub beloved entertaining a a bunch of chorus girls, She reporter, who is sent out by his paper to cover the — tosses her er ement rin i Q and biggest story in the city. However, nst the faith- takes a room at a chea Pa : party and discovers her house | fulness of the rest of the plot this ect becomes a while she tries to find ap -ife for | triviality ive you the story — this young lady is just one mean old disillusionment. twenticth-contury (Hist! later we find it was a practical joke.) You ring Irish cop, but [should be able to figure this one out from here on; a the first opportunity. (Continued on page 28) It wou'd be unfair to of this battle to the death betweer bad man and an honest, God-fe: do recommend that you sce it 2 The Movie Guide (Two performance shows only. See daily the twain foal meet.” with a harem (Continwe for theatre changes.) thrown ia for rood meas ] _ for grandmother “Dawn” (Times Sjuare)—An English “The Circus” —The latest Chaplin “The Michigan Ki: dramataation of the Edith Cavel wat “The Red Daneae™ (Globe) ly. PONE this inne incident, made entertaining by the acting wood Rusia. : as ike “The Crows"—Out of town patrons “The Patsy” — Mar of Sybil Thorn are warned that this splendid k has about a doven endings.” ope seis “Ladies of the Meb™—A nest story and obnoxious acting by Clara Bow Good fon ally Reviews! in Davies and y and made “Trail ot "98" (Astor) —This is a tire “The End of St Petersburg” (Ham- some epic with the usual epie antics merstein)—A magnifrent job dane by the Soviet government with a minimum of “The Tempast”(Emtasy)—Joha Bar The Gauede — Fair propaganda. The ablest direction exhity —rymore with little to do ited in years your location, “The Racket” —Iteviewod in this iawr, Jigious “The Smart Set”—Ejually amusing, ite with William Haines. tut ing, as usual, but a mimists story interferes wit “wings” (Criterion) —Yet some of the “Fart” (Gaiety)—Another expewition tery mand this one would lane money. It “*Mitet the Show''—Reviewed io this __ Also recommended: “The Magnificent of the thene "Fast is West —and never I probably ren until the next war insu Flew"; “The Man Whe Laughs.” comicbooks.com