Word: livesey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drums (Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Sabu; TIME, Sept...
Drums (Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Sabu; TIME, Sept...
...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 tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight-lipped British cavalry captain (Roger Livesey), whose function in the film is roughly equivalent to that of the Lone Ranger in a mess jacket. By the time this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been...
...Horner (Roger Livesey) pretends to be emasculated because his reputation has become such that he is hard put to circumvent the vigilance of jealous husbands. This ruse works well enough in the case of Sir Jasper Fidget, who is only too glad to have such an apparently harmless gallant squire his wife around town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally...