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Head Over Heels in Love (Gaumont-British) represents a heroic attempt on the part of England's major cinema company to get out a genuine U. S.-type musical comedy without infringing upon strict British cinema-quota laws. For industry and ambition, the effort deserves top marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed...
...Woman Alone (Gaumont British). Sylvia Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) is unaware that her stolid, bear-faced husband (Oscar Homolka), proprietor of a London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown...
Love in Exile (Gaumont-British) would greatly interest England's onetime King Edward VIII, for it begins at the point which his career has just reached (see p. 15). Opening scene shows King Regis VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicating the throne of an unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet...
...Gaumont-British stoutly maintains that Love in Exile was adapted from Gene Markey's story His Majesty's Pyjamas, was made long before the producers heard of Mrs. Simpson. Aside from its topical interest, it is merely a mediocre melodrama...
...transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British holding company. On the other hand he would be equally happy to relieve them of that interest. Convinced that Mr. Maxwell could indeed speak for Gaumont-British, President Kent hurried back to his telephone in Claridge's hotel...