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Dolores del Rio ... Lita
Edmund Lowe ... Jerry Flanagan
Don Alvarado ... The Spaniard
Blanche Friderici ... Madame Durand (as Blanche Frederici)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt ... Madame Pompier
Ullrich Haupt ... Pierre Ferrande
Mitchell Lewis ... Borloff
Ralph Lewis ... Blochet
Charles McNaughton ... Petey
Yola d'Avril ... Gida
John St. Polis ... Judge
Henry Kolker ... Prosecutor
George Fawcett ... Warden
Victor Potel ... Sailor
Harry Stubbs ... Sailor
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70 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (MovieTone)

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3 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Aptly titled transitional talker, 5 July 2002
6/10
Author: arthursward (arthursward@hotmail.com) from Easley, SC

Someone please decaffienate poor Delores Del Rio and open Mr. Lowe's eyes. Alas, no one uttered these directions to our leads. And so is spoiled a film of promise. How much cringing can one endure to enjoy some awesome sets from William Cameron Menzies? Edmund Lowe "sings", but I wouldn't call it music (embarrassing, perhaps). Miss Del Rio, clearly lost for how to act in a talking picture, emotes about 150 miles per hour. Scene after scene for the first 30 minutes is rasberry-worthy. This is such a shame, because work from the seconds and art direction invite scrutiny. A marvelous French village and prison are sumptuously photographed, and Mr. Lowe occasionally recovers the steely, resolved look that kept him popular through the '30's. Certainly, a textbook case of the birth of a new art form, and the difficulties the transition wrought.

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