There have been complaints that Leslie Howard is not sufficiently muscular to be a hero indeed, there have been accusations of down-right effec macy. Some considered that hi Scarlet Pimpernel lacked the right and adventurous quality, blood and a ready fist he could not k hold a candle to C
Gable. Bu in making "Stand In" the director has tried to remedy this defect, if it b defect. During the greater part of the film, Howard is more sinned agi than sinning: that is he receives a number of knocks without retaliation. But at the en he suddenly grows "tough," knock down one of his tormentors with a "Breakfast for Two."—gether for the first t tangoes and rhumbas gave straight right, exercises ju-mitsu on] 42e ample opportunity for the specialists another and lands a squashy tomato] relish voices and pronunciation, hall and Colman do seem to have made a slight concession to the land of their semi-adoption; now and then one detects in their speech m: than a trace of the American speech. But Leslie Howard and Charles Laughton have broken down American objections and their completely English speech is accepted wholeheartedly. There is one English actor, popular in any American film in which he appears, who remains completely English to the last vowel and the last consonant. That wonderful old veteran, C. Aubrey Smith, t be a walking personification of the essential England, which, "in spite of all temptations," refuses to be anying else.
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