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...public response to his two latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result not of the Legion of Decency but of Victor Hugo...
...portable dressing room, gives a splendid performance. The strange buttery face of Charles Laughton, a mask of comedy in Ruggles of Red Gap, hardens into unforgettable lines of fixed, neurotic malice in Les Miserables. More than any other single ingredient, it helps to make the picture, like David Copperfield, a superb example of what the current cinema can accomplish with a 19th Century classic...
University: "David Copperfield...
...much has already been written about "David Copperfield," now being featured at the University Theatre, that there is little more which can be said about the film without being guilty of trite repetition. The general acclaim which has greeted this picture is evidence enough that time spent seeing it is time well spent...
...Pitts, Roland Young. The truth is that Ruggles of Red Gap is a U. S. classic which tempts its actors to perfection as inevitably as it tempts audiences to approval. The best that can be said of this picture, the third cinema version of Ruggles, is that, like David Copperfield, it does justice to its original; the least is that no future cinema treatment of the valet who becomes a hero to his master is likely to improve upon its warm perceptive gaiety...