"The Look Out Girl" (1928) is an example of cheap on the prowl, out looking (no intent of a pun on the name) for patrons to see if "sucker" really can be applied every minute, as a certain showman once said. The film is not difficult to watch. It's a lot like some early television where, when somebody got home from work and was dazed from the day, that person would sit down; read the paper; eat dinner in a haze; then turn on the TV, watch with glazed eyes something about as interesting as watching strands of vegetable matter turn into straw material which becomes hay at some future time; then fall asleep with the TV still on.
Starring a very nice looking Jacqueline Logan, with Ian Keith, Gladden James, Lee Moran, William H. Tooker, Jimmy Aubrey, and others, my copy is not tinted, is in ratty, but a watchable state. Logan's the "look out girl" for a gang of robbers, but she wants to get out from under such conditions of being a "moll". This Victorian style, dime novel story has her marrying the man who saves her from what amounts to being an attempted suicide; marrying him so quickly after he quickly falls in love with her - that it's ridiculous; but, okay, the story's watchable, and I'm not glazed over enough to fall asleep, so I'll just continue watching this automatonistically told story as if I were an automaton, too.
There, if you wish to watch it, you won't be disappointed, believe it or not. Besides, it's just 55 minutes long, and you'll appreciate that Jacqueline Logan's really good looking and could at least act to the directions of a director. Oh, by the way, the director's Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and he directs about as well as I could - not. Have at it.
