Hollywood Bound (1928)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This here isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but it's actually worth viewing. Elmer Frisby (James Bradbury, Jr.) is a hotel clerk in a small PA town where he thinks way too highly of his looks. He plans on winning a contest that's going to send him to Hollywood where he'll have sexy women falling all over him. Hollywood BOUND has a pretty simple plot but I must admit that it's technically very well made considering the era and I also thought the lead performance was excellent. This character, and the film's entire joke, is rather unattractive but he thinks he's the greatest thing ever. Bradbury actually did a very good job playing this type of person who obviously doesn't know as much as he thinks he does. The performance actually carries the film and especially during a sequence where he tells off his boss. Gladys Brockwell actually gets her name above the title but I'm really not sure why considering she's only in the film for a very short time.