Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
With scenes perhaps more hauntingly realistic than even the most devoted Cervantes lover could imagine, the English version of the foreign-made "Don Quixote" comes to the Majestic screen. The most popular escapades of the scatter-brained knight-errant have been chronicled; they assume full stature due in most part to the photographic genius of Nicholas Farkas. Every shot conspires to emphasize the romantic Knight of the Mournful Countenance; landscapes receive the treatment of the Old Masters so that all interest converges on Don Quixote...
...lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene until from the flames of his burning books on Chivalry rises the volume, "The Tragical and Wittie Historie of Don Quixote do la Mancha," to live...
...vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with one knight, attempts to seduce another's wife, is rebuffed. The Jew reappears as a Sicilian merchant whose son dies and whose wife leaves him to become a nun. Lastly, in Seville, he is a kindly doctor who treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition...
...battered suit of armor. He has driven his niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best...