Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin also broke precedent by making his first sound film and radio talks. Before the latter he interrupted an enthusiastic studio audience: ''What are you applauding about? You don't know yet what I am going...
...Scarlet Pimpernel" is a film which has already received too much praise to be spoiled by trite phrases here. The Playgoer recommends it strongly, even to those romantic souls who must have their Hollywood endings. Need we say, yes, we might as well, Merle Oberon is a young lady who makes Hollywood endings a real pleasure, indeed, a delight...
...ended, King George's loyal subjects will have issued many a book to commemorate his accession to the British throne, but one may venture to prophesy that few, if any, will be so interesting as Sir Austen Chamberlain's compilation of eighty-three illustrations in photogravure from the Pathe film of the same title as the present work's. Sir Austen has also written the foreword, which states the significance of the Crown today, and as a former member of H. M. Government he must certainly speak for a large and representative body of British opinion. "The King at home...
...James Cagney is going to play Puck in the forthcoming Mid-Summer Night's Dream one can imagine, but as a "G Man" he is right in his element. The film appears to be an accurate account, generally speaking, of the development of the Department of Justice since the new anti-racket federal laws have changed its members from gang-fodder into...
...crackles along at a high level of reality and suspense, and is a first-rate "calling all cars" film...