Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gunga Din (RKO Radio), most expensive picture in the history of RKO, which was last week on the point of emerging from a six-year bankruptcy, unfolds a jolly story about high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants...
...Great Man Votes (RKO Radio). Latest and youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent...
...connected with its onetime U. S. associates, Pathe Film Corp. and Pathe News, Inc., which became a subsidiary of RKO in 1931. Both stem from Pathe Exchange, Inc., founded in U. S. by Charles Pathe...
Pacific Liner (RKO Radio). Amorous rivalry between a ship's doctor and a chief engineer, heightened by an outbreak of cholera on the high seas, results in a few deep-breathing exercises for Chester Morris and Victor McLaglen...
...Deal of the week : formation of Imperator-Radio Pictures, Ltd., by RKO Radio Pictures in the U. S. and British Film Producer Herbert Wilcox (Sixty Glorious Years, Victoria the Great). Objects: to enable Producer Wilcox to get his pictures distributed in the U. S., enable RKO Radio to borrow his actors and actresses and meet British quota requirements...