Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumph she is certainly as fascinating and as skilled an actress as the screen can present. "The Little Minister," perhaps even more than "Little Women," is perfectly fitted to the talents of this enchanting woman: A true gem of sentimental romance, Barrie's story has been rendered into a film of haunting loveliness by the restrained skill of its producers and the charm of Miss Hepburn. Set against the dream-like beauty of the lovely little Scottish village of Thrums the drama unrolls itself with absorbing simplicity and beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played...
...antics of James Cagney several thousand feet over the Alleghenies, Central Airlines does not plan to install cinema-chinery in its planes regularly until some manufacturer produces specially-designed equipment. First sound motion picture in the air was not Devil Dogs of the Air but Baboona, the Martin Johnson film which Eastern Air Lines showed bigwigs month ago in a Douglas a mile over Manhattan. Baboona, a regular 35-mm. film, will be shown again over Chicago this week in a TWAirliner...
...such cinemas as "Here Comes the Navy," "Hell-Divers," and those others which have to do with goings-on in Uncle Sam's fighting forces and whose equipment and scenery are the real McCoy. Many are the aesthetically beautiful and photographically magnificent shots to be found in the film, while certain other scenes and bits of action hark back to the old "thrillers" in their more daringly tense moments, but which, on the other hand, are strictly up to date in their ability to create effects without any stretching of the imagination...
Taking as its theme the tragic story of the "Demi-Soldes." or half-pensioned soldiers of Napoleon, in the years after the Bourbon Restoration, the French Film, "L'Agenie des Aigles" is a credible historical document. These soldiers who in a changed France have nothing left but their ardent admiration of L'Empereur try to bring about a return of the grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps...
...well-known Constant Remy has the leading role of Capitaine Dognereau one of the conspirators. With more than a trace of grim fatalistic humer, he goes to his death. If the other characters had approached his standard of acting, the film would have been more worthy...