"Strictly Dynamite" was a typical movie that lacked any semblance of originality.
Man struggles to make it. Woman helps man get his start. Man rises. Man brushes off woman. Man falls. They reunite.
It's happened in "The Crooner" (1932), "The Big Timer" (1932), and "Palooka" (1934) which also starred Jimmy Durante and Lupe Velez. In fact, Lupe played the exact same type of character--a lascivious woman who hopped from one man to another.
In "Strictly Dynamite" Nick Montgomery (Norman Foster) was the man. Sylvia Montgomery (Marian Nixon), his wife, was the woman. Sylvia helped Nick get a gig writing jokes for the very successful Moxie Straight (Jimmy Durante). The gig went well, he made a lot of money, then he started ditching his wife for Moxie's girl Vera (Lupe Velez). The movie made it seem like Nick was an innocent bystander in the whole matter, as though Vera was so strong and powerful he couldn't help but see her, kiss her, and be intimate with her even in front of his own wife. And just like the character Lupe played in "Palooka" (1934), she didn't care about Nick's work. All she cared about was herself and her own desires and clearly no man could resist her.
This was a lousy movie about someone who couldn't handle success. It followed a predictable pattern that's not all that interesting.
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Man struggles to make it. Woman helps man get his start. Man rises. Man brushes off woman. Man falls. They reunite.
It's happened in "The Crooner" (1932), "The Big Timer" (1932), and "Palooka" (1934) which also starred Jimmy Durante and Lupe Velez. In fact, Lupe played the exact same type of character--a lascivious woman who hopped from one man to another.
In "Strictly Dynamite" Nick Montgomery (Norman Foster) was the man. Sylvia Montgomery (Marian Nixon), his wife, was the woman. Sylvia helped Nick get a gig writing jokes for the very successful Moxie Straight (Jimmy Durante). The gig went well, he made a lot of money, then he started ditching his wife for Moxie's girl Vera (Lupe Velez). The movie made it seem like Nick was an innocent bystander in the whole matter, as though Vera was so strong and powerful he couldn't help but see her, kiss her, and be intimate with her even in front of his own wife. And just like the character Lupe played in "Palooka" (1934), she didn't care about Nick's work. All she cared about was herself and her own desires and clearly no man could resist her.
This was a lousy movie about someone who couldn't handle success. It followed a predictable pattern that's not all that interesting.
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