StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Leoni Haney
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
JohnHowardReid
Richard Talmadge (Dick Manning), Thelma White (Helen Lloyd), Mildred Harris (Marie Lloyd Hartley), Paul Ellis (Lavelle), George Chesebro, Robert Walker (henchmen), Lloyd Ingraham (successful bidder), Robert Frazer (Hartley), Vera Lewis (Mrs Hartley), Bull Montana (Monte, the escapee).Director: BERNARD B. RAY. Screenplay: Jack Natteford (dialogue), Richard Talmadge (continuity). Story: Bennett Cohen. Photography: Pliny Goodfriend. Film editor: Frank Atkinson. Assistant director: Ira Webb. Sound recording: J.S. Westmoreland. Producer: Bernard B. Ray.Not copyrighted by Reliable Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 27 November 1935. 53 minutes. Alternative title: IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. SYNOPSIS: Daredevil detective, Dick Manning, nabs a gang of warehouse bandits led by a blackmailing jewel thief.COMMENT: Borrowing a plot strand from "The Three Musketeers", this story serves mainly as an excuse for a series of acrobatic escapades by Richard Talmadge. One must admit that the daredevil, Talmadge, is not only in great form, but comes across as a moderately appealing personality. And it's also good to record that despite some histrionic shortcomings, Miss White makes an agreeable heroine. The rest of the players are serviceable enough. And it's certainly interesting to see that perennial solid western heavy, George Chesebro, in a suit (and doing a couple of double takes at that). Mr. Ray's direction rates a cut above his usual humdrum standard, thanks to some great location work with police cars speeding all out along actual streets and alley-ways.
