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Plenty of good directors have wanted to bring off just this sort of dead-static drama, so daringly ascetic in its denial of all the screen is supposed to need most and do best. Few have tried it, and none has succeeded more shrewdly than Zoltan Korda. With last year's excellent Sahara, this film puts him among the country's top directors...
Merle Oberon, 33, almond-eyed, Tasmanian-born cinemactress, announced that she planned to divorce Sir Alexander Korda, 51, slim, Hungarian-born British cinema producer, because they had failed "to work out separate lives and careers." Lady Korda, who became a star in her husband's best movie, The Private Life of Henry VIII, said that during five years of marriage they had seen each other infrequently, added: "I feel . . . so awful. . . Alex and I have been friends for such a long time. I hope everything will be all right with us as friends." Sir Alexander arrived in Manhattan from...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
...produce a certain percentage of pictures in England. Goetz cracked the practice of grinding out cheap "quota quickies" (which often lost money), proved that it was cheaper to make pictures good enough for the U.S. market. This worked so well that a year ago last March M.G.M. merged with Korda's London Films, Ltd., mapped out a program of big-budget pictures. Eventually, M.G.M. London under Korda and Goetz will turn out 16 of them yearly -a figure without precedent in England. Last week Ben Goetz was in Manhattan recruiting actors, writers, etc. for their...
...resisting the ever-present temptation to saturate a war story with a strong solution of the spectacular, Korda deserves great praise. The success of this film hinges upon its able, all-British cast of Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Godfrey Tearle, and Googie Withers, as well as the fact that its authentic action shots lend to the entire plot a reality that is more interesting than Errol Flynn fighting a thousand Nazis single-handed...