Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Storm Over Asia (Amkino). A Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...
Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...
...between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right of the neediest. Less stylized and re- lieved of its propaganda content, the feud between Kima and a rich local fur trader might have been a great story. In its present form it is interesting principally because it was made in the Taiga. Good shots: slow thinking Kima consulting with the Soviet officials; his fight in the snow with the treacherous trader...