Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shall We Dance? (RKO). Since any picture concerning Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is largely an excuse for them to dance together, one gauge of such a picture's merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...
Outcasts of Poker Flat (RKO). Pay dirt was running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried...
...Woman I Love (RKO). Lieutenant Jean Herbillion (Louis Hayward), the night before he goes to join his escadrille, falls in love with a handsome Parisienne (Miriam Hopkins) who tells him her name is Denise. At the front, he becomes the close friend and plane-mate of a moody pilot named Lieutenant Claude Maury (Paul Muni). When Herbillion goes on leave, Maury gives him a note for his wife, Hélène Maury. Hélène and Denise turn out to be the same person. The triangle is straightened out when, back at the front, Herbillion gets...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
...highlighted by scenes showing Toomai and Kala Nag stealing melons and Toomai making Kala Nag take a bath (see cut), magnificently climaxed by the elephant hunt, superbly photographed throughout, Elephant Boy is the first of three forthcoming Kipling pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The elephant hunt in the picture is a real one; it included a herd...