Montana labor news., 1936-08-13
THE film CORNER
WEEKLY GUIDE TO FILMS


SAN FRANCISCOlClark Gable is
a tough guy who runs a saloon and
doesn't believe in God. Which makes
it very annoying for Jeanette MacDon-
aid, a singer, and Spencer Tracy, a
priest. You see, they know that some
where behind Gables tough exterior
is the stuff believers are made of. Fl
rally an earthquake (and in~cidently it's
a beautiful executed quake hits San
Francisco and softens Gable to the
point where he asks the priest how one
goes about this business of praying.
A very much over-rated and over
baliyhooed picture, sentimental to the
point OF offensiveness.
WHITE ANGELGThe story of
Florence Nightingale could have been
converted into an interesting movie.
This isn't it. Intended as a follow up
in the Louis Pasteur tradition, it has
none OF the passion and point of its
predecessor. Making Kay Francis a
Florence Nightingale who doesn't re-
motley resemble a human being (such
serenity, such sweetness and light the
gal must have lived on a diet Of tulips)
is responsible in part for the pictures
failure.
SUZY-Jean Harlow escapes from
London when a German spy shoots her
newly acquired husband She leaves
in such a hurry that she forgets to
verify her husbands death. Which
proves very upsetting to Harlow when
he turns up a little later and finds her
married to a French aviator. The rest
is a matter OF what is humorousiy re-
ferred to as honor: You see, the
French husband turns out to be a cad
and is killed by the spy who attempted
to shoot the first husband. To spare
his father Lewis Stone) the shock of
learning what a heel the ace aviator
Gary Grant, was, her first husband
(Franchot Tone) crashes his plane so
that the authorities will believe he died
a hero. (Soft music.) The illusions
to the purifying aspect of war make
a merely stupid picture into a down
right dangerous one.
EARTHWORM TRACTORS-Joe E.
Brown is trying to sell them and sour
puss Guy Kibbee is refusing to buy.
In order to make Kibbee tractor-con-
scious and at the same time win his at
~tractive daughter Oune Travis Brown
goes through some fairly funny antics.
While many of the situations were full
grown laugh getters in the days when
they used to call them "flickers," there
are a few that ring the bell.
RETURN OF SOPHIE LANG
Gertrude Michael is a feromed jewel
thief who is trying to stay out of the
clutches of her accomplish who knew
her when she was not quite as fas.
tidious. To finish the story, take the
following facts Mix well, sprinkle
with banana oil and put out anywhere
will do TO soak overnight. Ready?
Here goes. A transatlantic steamer, an
employer who collects rare gems, a
news correspondent who loves the girl
and the dirty crook who makes the
girls friends mighty suspicious of her
innocence-until the vary last few
minutes.
WE WENT TO COLLEGE-With
Charles Butterworth, Hugh Herbert,
Una Merkel, and Walter Abel in the
cast you have every right to expect a
side splitting comedy. Unfortunately,
the authors and directors have let them
down in this old story OF grad re-
union. Nevertheless, every once in a
while, these zanys break loose from the
script and prove they are first rate
comedians.
SATAN NET A LADY-This is the
old Maltese Falcon story OF Dashiell
Hammett's dug up again and remade
with Warren Williams playing the part,
once made famous by Ricardo Cortez.
Rewritten SO that the mystery element
has been removed and a comedy angle
introduced, it does not measure UP to
what we have come to expect of a
Dashiell Hammett story.