Word: korda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
...Kala Nag take a bath (see cut), magnificently climaxed by the elephant hunt, superbly photographed throughout, Elephant Boy is the first of three forthcoming Kipling pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The elephant hunt in the picture is a real one; it included a herd of 80, one of the biggest ever captured in Mysore, and one of Mysore...
...greatest living actor. For people are being lured in droves to witness his inane eccentricities in "Rembrandt", a passed of foolishness that passes as acting and rides by on the immortal representations of Henry VIII and Captain Bligh; and critics are apparently too stunned to realize that Laughton and Korda can fizzle. In the first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying...
Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...