George Bancroft's leading role in "The Wolf of Well Street" not only marks his first appearance in an "all talking" but also is made significant by a distinct advance in his ability as an actor. This film showing the back stage actions of the bears and bulls of the stock market would be little more than worthless without his stellar work assisted by Baclanova.

A scenario with an average plot is aided very little by the directing. It is very noticeable that certain of the casting was done with an eye to the person's voice with the result that in certain minor roles an inexperience is shown which was not so obvious in the declasse pantomime pictures.

In spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest looking bunch of stock brokers that could be gathered together in Hollywood, he is given opportunity to do everything but get into a good old fashioned fight.

Baclanova's foreign accent adds a certain bizarre quality which is a distinct addition to production. Her acting is not of the best calibre and yet she leaves a distinct impression of talent.

An all talking, all negro, added attraction is built around a last line which makes it entirely unintelligible to the spectator who arrives in the middle of it. Producers in this new field will have to be careful not to estrange the large number of movie goers who like to see their films backwards.