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...Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with two of his sons, 19-year-old R??né and 13-year-old Michel, for a winter in the woods...
From Roberval parties of Indians and French Canadians set out to search northern Quebec ? a half-explored tract of forest land larger than all New England ? for R??né and Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old R??né, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
Last week, sufficiently recovered to pose for his picture, Michel Courtois was brought back to Roberval. A coroner's jury glanced perfunctorily at the skeleton of R??né Courtois, gave a verdict...
...Iron Mask (United Artists), his sequel to The Three Musketeers. The voice, like all filmed voices, creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best r??le again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward...
...this r??le Edward G. Robinson, one of the authors, gives a finely shaded performance. Mr. Robinson has for several years been playing snarling caitiffs in the wave of crime plays. His transformation into the well-meaning meddler of Kibitzer reveals him as the possessor of an unusually clear sense of comedy values. Alexis Polianov, Eugene Powers and Hobart Cavanaugh also are worthy of mention, and Producer-Director Patterson McNutt is to be credited with a steady-handed...