Word: birchman
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...will be rudely surprised. Its view of British public-school life in the 1830s offends only on the side of realism. Author Hughes recognized Headmaster Arnold as the man who made over Rugby. The Towne version shows Dr. Arnold as no Mr. Chips but a hard-hitting, God-fearing birchman. He takes over the school to find it riddled with bullies and liars, throws out so many students that the only trustee who supports him is equally God-fearing Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart). Dr. Arnold's job of reform is not half done when Squire Brown sends...
...what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus follows her-not, as in the original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons of gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred...
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