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...Stephen Curwood as Randall, the self-educated hood, gave the most inconsistent performance. The biggest problem was switching from the smooth-tongued cool guy to the thoughtful sage, as Randall's schizophrenic character unfolded. Curwood started out with a high, screechy slum accent, which contrasted nicely with the low resonant, unaccented voice of his philosophizing self, but which was irritating to the audience...
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (Buena Vista). Disney in the raw is seldom mild, but the Dad-why-can't-I-have-a-hunting-knife set doesn't mind. This incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North will delight every ten-year-old who ever wrestled his pillow and pretended it was a grizzly bear...
...River's End" brings to life James Oliver Curwood's best of many good yarns. It is full of mystery, action and Canadian scenery, and Mounties cut to a schoolboy's dreams--crossing mountains, valleys and rives in canoe, on horseback and dogsled, and always "getting their...
...chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood, Warner Brothers' production of "God's Country and the Woman" with George Brent in the leading role provides excellent entertainment. It is a story of the North Woods with the major part of the picture taking place in a lumber camp. George Brent plays the part of a worthless brother of a hardworking lumber executive who is stranded in the camp of the brother's chief competitor with no way out but to work. The rival company is controlled by Beverly Roberts, as rugged as the men she employs. Brent, whose entire...