Word: korda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Came boulting through the korda wood...
...Alexander Korda. 4. George Bernard Shaw...
Armed with the simplest of plots and three extremely capable actors, Zoltan Korda has transformed Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" into a first-rate motion picture. While the sparsely-worded, continually charged atmosphere of the original story has been preserved, the script-writers have only had to distort the plot a little to squeeze ninety minutes of movie out of thirty pages of tightly-written dialogue. The only place they slipped up was at the end, where long, out-of character explanations take the edge off Hemingway's subtlety...
Paulette Goddard took her own Hollywood hairdresser to London to keep her glamorous for a British film. So twelve local hairdressers walked off the lot in protest. Picture production stopped for three days-at a cost of $12,000 a day to Producer Alexander Korda. Miss Goddard kept her hairdresser...
...brilliantly good job-the best yet-of bringing Hemingway to the screen. None of the three principal players could possibly be improved on; the African landscapes and hunting scenes (which were made in Africa and Mexico) are as believable as a neighbor's backyard. Director Zoltan Korda (Sahara) has already made two films in Africa, which is a help in this particular picture; still more important, he knows people, and style, and atmosphere, and how to make them vivid on a screen. There is hardly a point that Hemingway made in this savage, complex communique about the war between...