Arthur Hohl's performance is nicely understated, though it's hard for me to pay him the attention he deserves next to Laughton wildly Moreau-ing it up.
He got my attention somehow. Which is a little frustrating, because while Hohl is not a worst-case character actor in that he actually has named roles and can appear onscreen with plot relevance for more than five minutes, I've run across him in nearly a dozen movies now and he's just almost never given anything as interesting as Montgomery to do; he's a conscientious doctor in Wild Boys of the Road (1933) and a crooked one in Massacre (1934), a pessimistic theatrical producer in Footlight Parade (1933) and a dishonest manager in Lady by Choice (1934), a basically walk-on Brutus in Cleopatra (1934) and a manipulable gangster in Jimmy the Gent (1934), and I can't remember him at all from Captured! (1933) or Baby Face (1933) despite liking both of those movies very much. Wikipedia tell me he had a much more extensive career onstage, which without a time machine is not helpful.
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He got my attention somehow. Which is a little frustrating, because while Hohl is not a worst-case character actor in that he actually has named roles and can appear onscreen with plot relevance for more than five minutes, I've run across him in nearly a dozen movies now and he's just almost never given anything as interesting as Montgomery to do; he's a conscientious doctor in Wild Boys of the Road (1933) and a crooked one in Massacre (1934), a pessimistic theatrical producer in Footlight Parade (1933) and a dishonest manager in Lady by Choice (1934), a basically walk-on Brutus in Cleopatra (1934) and a manipulable gangster in Jimmy the Gent (1934), and I can't remember him at all from Captured! (1933) or Baby Face (1933) despite liking both of those movies very much. Wikipedia tell me he had a much more extensive career onstage, which without a time machine is not helpful.