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...Crown Willamette Paper Co., whose crew set a world's record in 1931 by getting out 1,662,000 ft. of lumber in a single day, spent two months at Longview, Wash., making the outdoor sequences. The result, as background of a story loosely adapted from James Oliver Curwood's 1922 novel, is the most spectacular investigation of the lumber industry so far contributed by the screen. It is also in many respects the most effective, because least exotic, contribution to the screen so far made in Technicolor...
Straight out of James Oliver Curwood is the character of the sturdy civilian overseer who sympathizes with the newcomers but scorns them as failures, thinks them something of a blight on the rugged country he loves. Inspired by a blonde who acts like an amalgam of Joan of Arc and a visiting sociologist, the men "come to their senses" when their children fall sick by the dozen. They put up a hospital in 24 hours (offstage). The overseer changes his mind about having them sent back, sits down to talk over development plans. Near the final curtain, inevitably, a colonist...
...Paramount and Fenway we find two unexciting films, namely, "Brides Are Like That", a harmless and mildly amusing romance and "The Country Beyond", a saga of the Canadian Mounted writen by James Curwood and just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor...
...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...
...father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church. When Shackle learned that she painted her toe nails red, he thought: "She sho must be a hot rock!" But Pete ran around with "Pewee" Williams, who had his own car. On the front of Pewee's car was a sign that...