Word: nordhoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palpable success of Mr. Goldwyn's gamble on his two "discoveries" is due partly to their own able performances, partly to the skillful production of bald, burly Associate Producer Merritt Hulburd, partly to the inherent soundness of the story by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Their hero, Terangi (Jon Hall), has been happy all his life because he has been free and healthy. His boss, Captain Nagle (Jerome Cowan), gave him a blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle...
...this point, Hurricane has an unforgettable feeling of dark forces closing in around a wild free man. When they turn the wind loose, however, Authors Nordhoff & Hall, Screenwriters Dudley Nichols & Oliver H. P. Garrett wash out their own story. They also wash all the trees, houses, boats, animals and people off the atoll, leaving nothing but the Robert Edmond Jonesish ruin of a church. The hurricane lasts for 20 minutes. It is a technically superb, terrifying combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage...
Associate Producer Hulburd bought Hurricane for $60,000. In due time a friendly letter came from Authors Nordhoff & Hall. They were mightily pleased to know that he had bought their story, they said, because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had made such an admirable job of Mutiny on the Bounty. Samuel Goldwyn has never been connected with...
...Pitcairn Island group, well known from the novels of Nordhoff and Hall as the refuge of the "Bounty" mutineers, is scientifically remarkable as a classic of inbreeding and racial mixtures...
After the war it was natural that Nordhoff should return to Boston. He had been a quiet Harvard man who played a guitar and mandolin and read a good deal. James Norman Hall, the lowan, came to Boston with him. Both hated business and post war America, and liked writing and fishing. They therefore settled in Tahiti in 1920, wrote the history of the Lafayette Flying Corps and a novel, Falooms of France...