Word: lancer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNIVERSITY--The same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling...
...deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...
Typical of the brigade's personnel was the roll of last week's homecomers. Among them: 25-year-old Brigade Commissar (political instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched...
...standard of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" but good entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...
Under its fancy dress, Drums turns out on close inspection to stem less from U. S. predecessors like Lives of a Bengal Lancer than a merger of early epics about the winning of the West, with the usurping Prince Ghul substituting for Sitting Bull and the Khyber Pass as stand-in for the Oregon Trail. Principal distinction between its plot and that of the early American version of the same theme is that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border...