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Ourselves Alone (Gaumont-British), whose title is a free translation of the Gaelic Sinn Fein, differs from Hollywood investigations of that Irish revolutionary group by approaching it from a temperate and somewhat more realistic British viewpoint. Not entirely neglecting the poetry of The Informer and The Plough And The Stars or the star-crossed romance of Beloved Enemy, Ourselves Alone is concerned chiefly with the hard...
Heart's Desire (Gaumont-British). A vehicle for Viennese Tenor Richard Tauber...
King Solomon's Mines (Gaumont-British) is good-old-fashioned adventure adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 50-year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good...
Silent Barriers (Gaumont British) amounts to one more indication that Great Britain's cinema industry would do well to give Hollywood an exclusive franchise on celebrations of the British Empire's past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes...
...carpet, forced to promise they will release not a single inch of film disapproved of by the Duke and the Archbishop, who were appointed the official censors. Since they cannot be expected to rush to a projection room directly from the Coronation, and do their censorship at once, Gaumont British was on the point of abandoning last week its plans to have famed British Flyers Jim Mollison and Beryl Markham take off in separate planes with duplicate Coronation films in an effort to get these to the U. S. quickly...