But Garbo is still Grand, Great, Greta and basically Greater than Crawford. This must be Crawford's best film, remarkably, and she was definitely good, it has to be said. Garbo's ultimately captivating and mesmerising screen presence, I've decided, would have derived from her earlier training and background in silent films. In this film, unfortunately, she doesn't seem to have fully mastered the transition to the talkies. In her later films the transition was brought to perfection. Meanwhile this is quite an interesting film, which I may watch again. It was interesting to see the Barrymores; and also Beery, if only for the experience. I thought he only appeared in wrestling pictures. I was going to give this 8 stars, but then that seemed too much as the story, decent thief gets murdered, seemed a bit empty..
Review of Grand Hotel
