Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lacking in plot, Frank Buck's Wild Cargo" does a good job in transmitting to the screen the series of adventures involved in rounding up the big game catch of a jungle expedition. Despite the fact that the spontaneous reality of some of the scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing...
...jungle adventures of animal-catching vary from the grim struggle of a black leopard with a fifteen-foot python to the more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America...
...love interest is supplied by Fay Wray, and Stuart Erwin as the American reporter is adequate. Henry B. Walthall, who has appeared much too rarely since "The Birth of a nation" makes the gentile, idealistic Madero a vivid character. The photography and musical accompaniment are excellent, but the film is unnecessarily long and would profit by judicious cutting...
...French Revolution, is the second of Schnitzler's plays to be presented by the Turmwaechter, the first, "Liebelei," having been given last year in conjunction with the Wellesley German Club. The play is to be presented in addition to the regular Fine Arts program which includes the German film "Herthas Erwachen...
...rejects this inaccuracy and regards the film purely as a dramatic attempt, he will have the pleasure of seeing a very excellent production. The supporting cast is very good. Loretta Young, as Rothschild's rather superficial daughter, Julie, does a surprisingly good job. Another part that is very well done is that of the elder Rothschild's wife, mother of the five brothers who founded Europe's most powerful chain of banking houses...