Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...
...follows: 1. Fantasia in C minor J. S. Bach The Bells W. Byrd Fuge aus dem Magniflcat J.J. Pachelbel "Harmonious Blacksmith" Variations Handel 2. Chromatische Fantasle und Fuge J. S. Bach 3. "The Battle between David and Goliath" J. Kuhnau 4. Italian Concerto J. S. Bach 5. Les Vendangeuses Couperin La Bandoline Couperin La Poule Rameau Le Rappel des Oiseaux Rameau 6. Drei Sonaten Domenico Scarlatti
...Les Miser able s Ruggles...
...Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in France, he also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke...
Charles Laughton gives us Captain Bligh, an iron-willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...