Word: birchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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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