Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...colonel, Sir Guy Standing, between devotion to the army and love for his son lends coherence to the plot. Richard Cromwell brings to the role of the son a sincerity which overcomes the unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement under fire should provide an estimate of their contributions. Bargaining for the honor of dashing in front of machine guns to destroy dangerous ammunition, Cooper boasts he ran the 220 in 22 see, at McGill. "Where is McGill?" replies Tone...
...Fenimore Cooper," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
University officials have not decided where the engraving will be hung. A portrait of the Reverend Cooper's son, the Reverend Samuel Cooper, painted by John Singleton Copley, was given to the College many years ago, and is now hanging in Eliot House. Like his father, the Reverend Samuel Cooper was offered the presidency of Harvard and declined...