Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Sirogoff (RKO) starts with a battle and ends with a siege. The body of the picture contains a massacre, a fight between a bear and a man, two horse-whippings, several murders, the spectacle of an executioner drawing a red-hot sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell...
Most interesting fact about the manufacture of Michael Strogoff is the fact that not only its big scenes-Tartar troops riding across the steppes, rout of the Tsar's regiments by Ogareff's cavalry-but almost all the outdoor sequences were actually filmed in Siberia, giving the picture a photographic validity that could not possibly have been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German...
Fire Over England (London Films), not to be confused with Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats...
...company. She had lovely legs, but she was not beautiful: she had what the director called an india-rubber face, capable of expressing any emotion at will. In short, Julia was a natural. She was working hard in the repertory company, learning fast, when she fell in love with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much of it as his careful nature would allow...
Students playing minor roles are: Benedict Einarson, J.P.F., John H. Huntington '40, Michael Linenthal '37, Howard T. Roman 1G., Richmond Holder '40, and John W. Sever '40. The lead part, that of the tragic Thomas Becket, will be played by the Broadway veteran E. Irving Looke...