Robert Barrat’s Role in “ Mountain Justice ”
NARROW-MINDED, CRUEL FATHER (Meteor: Now screening.) Robert Barrat, about as nice an actor as you’d care to meet, should emerge from “Mountain Justice” about the best hated man in all picturedom. As the narrow-minded, cruel father of Josephine Hutchinson and Marcia Mae Jones, he upholds his parental authority with a four-foot rawhide whip, which he lashes about, striking them wherever and whenever he can. Compared with him, Simon Legree, the traditional stage villain, was as geritlc ai a lamb. The Robert Barrat who goes on a rampage of bestial cruelty for screen purposes is one man, but the Robert Barrat who immediately hurries up to the girls as soon as the tako is made and solicitously asks, “Did I hurt you that timet” is another. The second one is the real Robert Barrat. “Mountain Justice,” co-stars Miss Hutchinson and George Brent under Michael Curtiz'l direction.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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