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Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

kai ringler slightly better than the amazing mr x.. but not much,, this one moves at a snails pace. hardly any action, I got the point of the movie or this would have been a 1. for me I guess just following it to where I understand what the movie was about gave it a 2 for me,, the best part of the movie for me believe it or not was the scene where the kid is trying to play with his new train for Christmas,, well the grown ups are playing with it and you hear the kid say dad when am I gonna get to play with MY TRAIN, I thought that it was so hilarious when the kid said that.. yeah there was some mystery to the movie, which kinda kept me interested for a little while,, but this movie , doesn't really have any action,, and is kinda slow paced for me,, which just made me wish the movie would end,,

JohnHowardReid A newshound investigates the staged shooting of a District Attorney.Probably the most expensive Poverty Row production ever made, World Gone Mad features a top-flight cast (Neil Hamilton and Buster Phelps are the only weak links) in a racily dialogued, fast-moving (at least in the cutdown version) account of corporate greed and cover-up. By independent standards, some of the sets and special effects come over as really outstanding. True, there are some rough moments. Both the opening scene and action finale seem a little abrupt in the cut DVD print, but otherwise the rather complicated plot is put across with both speed and efficiency by director Cabanne. The action sequences are perhaps not as slickly staged as they could be, although the superb editing work by Otis Garrett livens them up considerably. Photographer Ira Morgan has lit both his players and Danny Hall's sumptuous sets with commendable finesse and even added some attractive noirish effects to complement the car-train climax.Measuring up to the standard of his later Charlie Chan and Bulldog Drummonds, Edward T. Lowe's script provides excellent dialogue opportunities for Pat O'Brien (the loose newsman), Evelyn Brent (the heavy's moll), Louis Calhern (the heavy), J. Carroll Naish (a super-spruce goon), and the lovely Mary (Wendy) Brian (the passionate heroine who is throwing herself away on stiff-as-a-board Hamilton).The lively, fast-paced 105-minutes version is now available on a very good Alpha DVD.

Coventry Most of these 30's thrillers/murder mysteries have been forgotten by now because, let's face it, they haven't got much to offer apart from – occasionally – a good story. This little film has a very decent story, fluently written dialogues and some really adequate acting performances, yet it simple can't be called memorable because of the shabbiness of the production. Pat O'Brien ("Hell's House") stars as an obtrusive reporter investigating the vicious assassination of a befriended District Attorney and unravels almost single-handedly an entire network of corruption, blackmail and political scandals. His performance is very good and he gets to say some very slick lines, yet the movie lacks a lot of action and continuity. There's one sequence near the beginning that I found particularly smart, showing how the assignment for murder is passed on to several involved parties and thus creating a complex structure that sadly never gets properly clarified. There are some more ingenious and dared ideas in the plot, but it all looks too poor for you to care. Feel free to avoid this one.

Spondonman Apart from some occasionally stiff acting by the leads, plus the usual enthusiastic reporter portrayal, this time by Pat O'Brien, this is a pretty terse and believable tale of Your Wrongs Will Eventually Find You Out. The overall technology was poor of course, but ignorable. Some cogent scripting was going off here, much too detailed to go into - take my word for it! However, Neil Hamilton as the D.A. says that if he could he would line up against a wall all crooked businessmen and shoot them ... if caught a fair trial was obviously guaranteed then.Best bit: The two minute scene in the dark where Pat O'Brien and Evelyn Brent are lying on a bed both pretending to be drunk and playful for their own reasons. Your mind can run riot listening to them goofing around as shadows!Out of dozens of similar early 30's films in this vein I've seen, TWGM must come near the top.