The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
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Broadway Is Always Like This!
It's always a pleasure to see the lovely Colleen Moore in action. Even when handed a script that wanders all over the place, Miss Moore still manages to shine. Mind you, it's not really the sort of role we like to encounter her in, because the character she plays is so colorless, she's forced to let the rest of the cast walk all over her. It's really a Johnnie Walker and Alice Lake movie, even though George and Bubbles have little in common and few scenes together. But they're both very personable players and they're given a great deal of footage.
The direction rates as reasonably competent with me and like all Mr Cummings' movies shows occasional flashes of brilliance.
The script is the problem. A flashback is a suspenseless device to start with. But just as this what-happened-back-then scenario seems to settle down into its conventional formulas of rags to success, virtue is its own reward and the price of fame is body and soul, it switches all of a sudden into a half-baked murder mystery which is then quickly and most unconvincingly resolved.
At this point the script-writers unexpectedly decide to substitute subtlety and brevity for the detailed exposition of previous scenes. The flashback ends and disappointingly the main plot is then breathlessly wound up Tully Marshall--a fine actor, but in this movie he's merely a minor support player
The direction rates as reasonably competent with me and like all Mr Cummings' movies shows occasional flashes of brilliance.
The script is the problem. A flashback is a suspenseless device to start with. But just as this what-happened-back-then scenario seems to settle down into its conventional formulas of rags to success, virtue is its own reward and the price of fame is body and soul, it switches all of a sudden into a half-baked murder mystery which is then quickly and most unconvincingly resolved.
At this point the script-writers unexpectedly decide to substitute subtlety and brevity for the detailed exposition of previous scenes. The flashback ends and disappointingly the main plot is then breathlessly wound up Tully Marshall--a fine actor, but in this movie he's merely a minor support player
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- JohnHowardReid
- Feb 10, 2008
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By what name was Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923) officially released in Canada in English?
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