Word: ian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around A. D. 330 it suddenly disappeared, reappeared farther south. Lou-Ian, the city bordering it, became a sandswept ruin; the rich surrounding country went back to desert. In 1901 Hedin predicted that the lake would return to its old bed. In 1921 it did. He tells the story of Lop-nor, describes his explorations on and around...
...score, too, provides a coloristic background for the play. To single out any of the performers for praise is practically impossible; the entire cast is magnificent. Leonard Kent as the hero Michael Ransom performs beautifully in a gruelling role; Earl Montgomery as Lord Stagmantle and Jervis McMechan as Ian Shawcross also give outstanding performances. As a last word, one must mention the impressive sets and stagings. Ransom's death-dream is a triumph of direction...
Strange Cargo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is The Passing of the Third Floor Back, laid in Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
...been playing Sadie Thompson so long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always in danger of seeming preposterous, Cinemactor Hunter manages to be natural and supernatural at the same time, compassionate without becoming mawkish...
...Vancouver, the film was independently advertised as extolling the war work of Minister of National Defense Ian Mackenzie...