Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1931

The Struggle (United Artists—D. W. Griffith). Director David Wark Griffith knew the patois of the cinema 15 years ago, but with his Abraham Lincoln of last year he revealed that he has not bothered to keep up with the times. The Struggle, written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, acted by Hal Skelly and Zita Johann, is a shiftless and pitiably stupid homily which, esthetically and financially, should be an embarrassment to all concerned. Its story—of a steel-worker who takes to tippling and ends up with a case of delirium tremens in a...

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