Where east is east

 

This was a pretty bad silent movie but it's worth it for the unintentional funny ending. Estelle Taylor is really the star of this one. She's quite exotic looking. She plays Lon Chaney's ex. He knows she's up to no good and soon she is seducing her estranged daughter Lupe Velez's boyfriend. SPOILER: Lon Chaney opens up a gorilla cage and tells the animal to get at it (the ex-wife.) It ended the movie on a cheesy point. The talent of this movie like Lon Chaney and Todd Browning outweighs the movie itself.

This is the Night

 

This was an ok pre-code movie. This was Cary Grant's first movie and you can already tell that he has a charming persona here. However, the movie really belongs to Lily Damita. Damita is supposed to play the wife of Roland Young. Young is currently having an affair with Cary Grant's wife Thelma Todd. But Young finds himself jealous of the affections that Cary Grant has been showing towards Damita. This was all right. 

Girls' Dormitory

 

Tyrone Power only has a small role in the movie Girls' Dormitory. It was pretty short but I liked it. It deals with a very young cute Simone Simon before her breakthrough role in Cat People. She plays a nineteen-year-old school girl that has a crush on Herbert Marshall. People are shocked by a love letter that the student has written. When Herbert finds out that she wrote the letter to him he is taken back. Who could love him a boring headmaster. He discovers he has feelings for Simone as well.  SPOILER: I loved the ending although it was rushed. The movie would have been better if it added twenty minutes. It turned out that Ruth Chatterton had feelings for him.  I expected the movie to change because of this information after she's closer to him in age.  But that didn't happen thankfully.