It's hard to think of another actress's role that is so thankless and unsympathetic as the one assigned here to Jeanne Roland. She comes across as an uncaring wanton; her father dies, and she's next seen, without a care in the world, carousing on a ship with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is knocked out on the ship, and, minutes later, she's drinking and flirting with a stranger instead of being at her friend's bedside. The boyfriend is then knocked unconscious again, and, again, she's drinking and canoodling callously with this stranger as though oblivious to all except her voracious libido. She comes across as a lascivious nymph, and I was left hoping the Mummy would do her in to save the boyfriend the trouble! It all made a mediocre film even more ludicrous!
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Taxi
(1931)
several factors ruin this movie
10 October 2014
Leila Bennett's droning was endless, intrusive, grating, and monotonous. She single-handedly ruined every scene in which she was featured, and there were far too many of those; oh, what a Fanny Brice or Judy Holliday could have done with this role! Also, Loretta's character forgiving Cagney's at the end of the movie is reprehensible and stomach-turning - all women should hate this facile and callous resolution. Cagney's character had absolutely no redeeming qualities. And how the hell did he get away with attempted murder? Definitely not my favourite Cagney vehicle although I really, really liked Loretta Young despite the ending foisted upon her.
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