Sure enough Day gets a first degree murder conviction, but at the hour of execution the D.A. The Mouthpiece opens up right in the middle of courtroom action with William’s Day lowering the boom on a visually tortured murder defendant, a man accused of killing his wife, who’s twisting so bad that you know he senses the inevitable. And it’s Hickey who we feel belongs at Vince Day’s side all along, with just that possibility left looming at the film’s somewhat open ending. Here, as Hickey, she’s the glue in Vince Day’s office, showing various characters in and out of the office with chit-chat in between, coming to the aid of young Celia and her fiancé in a time of catastrophe for the young couple when she practically resuscitates Day from the dead in sobering him up. In Gold Diggers MacMahon plays the more experienced of the girls living with Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. What we could have used were more scenes with Day’s streetwise secretary, Hickey, played by Aline MacMahon, who is better remembered for her part in another flick headlined by Warren William, Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1933. This movie moves fast and the details have to be hammered home quick.
The accent is really just silly, and probably the fault of whoever decided on the character’s birthplace–it would have just been better if she were from the sticks somewhere in the Northeast, but I guess the minds behind this picture didn’t think that would be effective enough. Day then switches to the defense, manages to sink into the underworld, make a fortune, and finally have his morals resuscitated by the innocence of his young assistant, Celia Farraday (played by Sidney Fox), and her refusal to give in to either him or the corruption of the big city.įox, who would otherwise be charming, can be a bit cringe-inducing as her “Kentucky” accent fades in and out throughout the picture, occurring just often enough to remind the viewer that she’s not supposed to be from the city (according to the IMDb the petite Fox was born in New York). Day is one of William’s most exciting roles, a prosecuting attorney cheap mlb jerseys in the opening scene, he’s quickly crushed after sending an innocent man to die. Here we have Warren William at his smooth-talking best as lawyer Vince Day. This 1932 release is an enjoyable example of both Warren William and more generally Warner Brothers releases of the period. You can jump over to that post by clicking HERE. Fallon and the the cycle of movies he inspired. In September 2014, I wrote a new article about THE MOUTHPIECE posted to Immortal Ephemera where I concentrate more upon the legacy of William J.
This was the first post on the site back in 2007 and now appears to include a bit more plot rehash than I would like.
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