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Stevenson's story is common knowledge. Suffice it to say that Oscar Homolka, as the liquor beridden skipper who lost his ship and his papers while suffering from overmuch tipping of the bottle, is at times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger...
Another Big Broadcast, Marlene Dietrich in Angel, a Viennese novelty named Oscar Homolka in Ebbtide, with Frances Farmer, in Technicolor (Paramount...
...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...
...world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose his virtual dictatorship. Unbowed by defeat, he admits the wrong, dies quietly just as the Boer War is bringing true the Union of South...
Thought much has been found out about the residents of Homolka while they were still iving, the dead still remain a mystery. Almost the only burials so far discovered consist of a row of skeletons found on the top of the hill. These, however, proved to be the remains of invading Slavs, who had been interred there nearly 3000 years after the abandonment of the fortress. A search for the original cemetery will be one of the special objects of the work to be carried out there...