Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today "Lost Horizon" and "Holiday" form the bill. The first, a screen adaptation of James Hilton's novel, stars Ronald Coleman, and deserves its recall and its reputation as an exciting adventure film. "Holiday" is a Phillip Barry show with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant handling the lead light comedy roles...
Liberal Union executive committee members will ask the HLU tonight for power of attorney to act in the Film Series litigation. The request will be made at a joint membership meeting in Littauer Center Auditorium of the HLU and Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action...
Quartet (Rank; Eagle Lion), British cinema's talent-studded gift to Somerset Maugham on his 75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...
...cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended in tragedy...
...whaling captain, can't take his grandson, Dean Stockwell, back to sea unless the latter passes his fourth grade examinations. Master Stockwell fails them, but a sympathetic principal fixes up the mark, thus permitting the boy to ship over. This takes care of a quarter of the film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their studio tank...