Abstract

Films

Nothing in the film "The World Moves On" will bring a blush to the cheek of any maiden or cardinal. Its indecency is of another order, the sentimentalization of those values in American life from which the American public has been driven to seek relief in the uninhibited humors of James Cagney and the Junoesque curves of Mae West. It is pleasant to be able to turn to one or two new films which reveal no effort toward our immediate moral salvation. The film "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" is much too sophisticated to do either very much good or very much harm of a spiritual variety. How much the peculiar quality of the Bulldog Drummond pictures has depended on Ronald Colman's individual personality one cannot be certain, but it is to be noted that anything at au resembling it has been found only in those too rare pictures in which he appears. "One More River" was not one of the late John Galsworthy's most respectable achievements in the novel-writing field. But so good are Diana Wynyard and Frank Lawton in the principal roles of the screen version that the old story takes on a new reality.