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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Marcus Tucker</title>
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		<title>JEWEL ROBBERY &#8211; William Powell, Kay Francis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Tucker</dc:creator>
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Jewel Robbery (1932)
Direction: William Dieterle
Screenplay: Erwin C. Gelsey, from Ladislas Fodor&#8217;s 1931 play Ekszerrablás a Váci-uccában and Bertram Bloch&#8217;s English-language adaptation, Jewel Robbery
Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray
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Film scholars consider the 1932 comedy Trouble in Paradise to be the best work of actress Kay Francis. I disagree. Francis was good in everything she did &#8212; and if one particular performance could be named her best, that would be found in another 1932 release, the romantic melodrama One Way Passage. 
That same year &#8212; no less than seven Francis vehicles were released in 1932 &#8212; Kay Francis starred in another naughty and noteworthy comedy, Jewel Robbery. Jewel Robbery, however, is not on the same level as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STRANGE INTERLUDE by Robert Z. Leonard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange Interlude (1932) 
Direction: Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay: Bess Meredyth and C. Gardner Sullivan, from Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s play. Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, May Robson, Robert Young, Maureen O&#8217;Sullivan, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Tad Alexander
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LOVE IS A MUCH-FRUSTRATING THING
By Marcus Tucker of Shadow Waltz
With the advent of new technology comes experimentation. When sound arrived in Hollywood, films became stagebound because of the crippling limitations of the primitive equipment. But by the time MGM&#8217;s film adaptation of Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s 1928 Pulitzer-winning play Strange Interlude was released in 1932, filmmakers had become comfortable enough with sound to experiment with it. Thus, in Strange Interlude the thoughts of the characters are vocalized &#8212; and watching this drama about [...]]]></description>
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