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Nine Days a Queen (Gaumont British) is a sequel to Alexander Korda's famed The Private Life of Henry VIII, so close in general merit to its predecessor, that there seems no reason why the story cannot keep on chronologically up to and including Edward VIII. The royal panorama starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword...
Martin, a new baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...
...reason for this involved series of transactions was to reassure anxious Britons that Gaumont would remain "definitely" British. Another, and probably more important reason, was that it will enable the Ostrers to sell out more than two-thirds of their Gaumont stock to the British public. Joe Schenck will also cash in to almost the same extent through the British public and his Brother Nick. Brother Nick will be the only one left with less cash than when he started...
...must be obtained before any of the plans bear fruit. Part & parcel of the financial proposals are straight business agreements wrhich will benefit all three companies. The when & how of these plans were as vague as Joe Schenck's financial details but the eventual effects were fairly clear. Gaumont will scrap its U. S. distributing organization at a saving of at least $500,000 annually. In return M-G-M and Twentieth Century-Fox will market Gaumont pictures not only in the U. S. but in nearly all countries of the world except Britain. There Gaumont will absorb...
More significant for the Schencks will be savings resulting from consolidation of their British producing units with those of Gaumont. Henceforth, Gaumont will make for M-G-M and Fox the pictures which British law requires a foreign cinema company to produce in Britain under its quota system. For every 1,000 ft. of film which, say, M-G-M exports to Britain, another 225 ft. has to be shot on British lots. Slapped together as cheaply as possible, these "quota" films are even more of an imposition on British audiences than "summer fare" on U. S. audiences. Gaumont, explained...