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...memorably played by Thommy Berggren (the lover in Elvira Madigan), whose diffident yet forceful manner and ingratiating uncertainty with the English language make him the perfect incarnation of Hill. Kelvin Malave is also charming as The Fox, but the rest of the cast is distractingly nonprofessional. What is decisively wrong with Joe Hill is that it lacks historical complexity. The Molly Maguires, another film about labor's early struggles, was remorselessly real, almost like a dirge. Joe Hill, despite its occasional beauties, is more like a sentimental pop tune...
ELVIRA MADIGAN. A Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) deserts his wife, children and career to spend a summer of delirious happiness with a tightrope walker (Pia Degermark) in this spare and remarkably sensitive pastoral film...
Elvira Madigan is an elegiac pastorale based on the true story of a Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) who deserted his wife, children and career for a hopeless liaison with a circus tightrope walker (Pia Deger-mark). Abandoning their past, ignoring their inevitably tragic future, the two flee to Denmark to spend one delirious summer of happiness. Like stars that burn most brilliantly just before they are extinguished, the couple are renewed by simple pleasures-their bodies, the heady summer air, the wide riverbanks and the small, disciplined forests...
...into Delta Upsilon. Charlie was whittled out 25 years ago by a Chicago barkeep named Mack (price: $35). He was modeled on a sketch Bergen made of a red headed Chicago newsboy. Bergen was then 16, the gawky, moody second son of a Swedish immigrant named Berggren who had run a retail dairy business in Chicago and a farm near Decatur, Mich...
Danger Lights (RKO). For this first important release to be made with the new Spoor-Berggren wide film (TIME, Sept. 1). RKO has shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives...