“Sworn Enemy” Introduces New Romantic Team

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

“Sworn Enemy” Introduces New Romantic Team

METROPOLITAN CRIME OPERATIONS VIVIDLY DEPICTED

(Mayfair: Screening Saturday). Teeming -with flesh-and-blood characters irom all walks of me, swept up from the city streets into a cauldron of dramatic circumstance—this is ‘ ‘ Sworn Enemy,' ’ a story of metropolitan crime operations. Headlining the cast is Robert Young as a son of the city slums endeavouring to go straight in a law career until the gang with whom he was raised kills his brother. Florence Rise as a surgeon’s daughter who proves the best detective on the special force. Joseph Calleia as the sinister Joe Emerald, crippled overlord of the rackets, sports lover and perverse philanthropist, a killer unknown even to his own lieutenants. Lewis Stone as Dr. Gattle, distinguished surgeon who spends twelve years in the penitentiary on a charge “framed” by Emerald. “Sworn Enemy” is based ou a story by Richard Wormser, and was directed by Edwin L. Marin, director of such recent hits as “Speed,” “Moonlight Murder” and “Tho Garden Murder Case.” The plot depicts the struggle of a poor boy trying to go straight until his brother and employer are killed by the men with whom he was raised; then follows his demoniacal lust for revenge. The pace is swift from the opening sc.ne when, having landed his first job, he struggles with gang representatives who demand part of his salary for “protection,” to tho final climax in the luxurious penthouse of the gang overlord.