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...expressionistic rampage (see cut). Last year. Production Manager Frank Kassler of A-B (for nothing) Films, which makes most of Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem. He hired Director Julien Duvivier (La Maternelle), Actor Harry Baur (Les Miserables), spent $200,000 building a medieval ghetto in his Prague studio, set to work with a French script...
Main character in Producer Kassler's Golem is not the Golem but Emperor Rudolph (Harry Baur). Half-mad, bullied by his Prime Minister and harried by his mistress (Germaine Aussey), he has a fixation about the Golem, wants it destroyed. Prague's persecuted Jews are equally determined to preserve it. Rabbi Loew is dead but his successor, Rabbi Jacob, knows the formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons...
Equipped with a serious, timely theme, a full-blown performance by Actor Baur, for whom madmen and the like are a specialty, The Golem does not aim to be a horror picture. Nonetheless, ably directed, festooned with English subtitles, its principal message for cinemaddicts who remember its predecessor will be that old Golems are the best Golems. Good shot: Ru dolph trying to engage the Golem in talk, raging when the statue fails to answer...
...Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
...middle-class parents who died when he was a child, Harry Baur ran away to Marseille from a government home at 13, worked his way through school, toured the provinces as a peddler, joined the army, prepared funeral wreaths for a florist to pay for diction lessons, after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten...