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Green Light (Warner). This adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1935 best-seller exhibits Errol Flynn, last seen in the uniform of a British lancer in The Charge of the Light Brigade, somewhat less advantageously swathed in the white tunic of a U. S. medico. He is Dr. Newell Paige, an irreligious but idealistic young surgeon who, when a patient dies because of a blunder by his superior, generously takes the blame. The daughter (Anita Louise) of the mishap's victim likes Dr. Paige at first sight, hates him when she suspects him of being responsible for her mother...
...LANCER AT LARGE - Francis Yeats-Brown-V'iking...
Readers of his Lives of a Bengal Lancer will remember that ex-Lancer Yeats-Brown was not only an enthusiastic polo-player and pig-sticker but an amateur of Hindu mysticism. In Lancer at Large, an account of India revised after 15 years, Hollywood will be hard put to it to find any material at all. At 50, Yeats-Brown approached India not as a sporty subaltern but as an inquiring disciple...
Combining in fresh and spontaneous form the kinetic appeal of Lives of a Bengal Lancer with the patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz...
Polled by Film Daily, 451 U. S. film critics chose what they considered the ten best pictures of 1935: i) David Copperfield 2) Lives of a Bengal Lancer...