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...give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours which it lasts seem as interminable as Bligh's voyage in the open boat must have seemed to its occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still contains enough material for at least three films. These faults are indigenous to the historic material used. The picture has few others. It is superbly photographed by Arthur Edeson. Franchot Tone as Byam, Clark Gable as Christian and Dudley Digges as the ship...
...Author. In his 50 years Frederick Britten Austin has written some 20 blood & thunder volumes, most of them characterized by grandiose imaginative conceptions. Thus The Red Flag dealt with the progress of revolution through the ages while his interminable A Saga of the Sword described in terms of romance the development of war from prehistoric times. Born in London, he attended the Grocers' Company School and Hackney Downs, enlisted in the British Army in 1914, was demobilized in 1919 with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about...
...mill comedies and melodramas, "Accent on Youth," "Lost Horizons," Britisher Van Druten's "The Distaff Side," and Kauffman's tourde-force play given backwards, "Merilly We Roll Along." However there was probably nothing more important to substitute in place of one of these four, except possibly the hilarious saga of a bersek British explorer in "Petticoat Fever," or the libretto of the excellent musical "Anything Goes." Of course it was a mistake to leave out "Tobacco Road," the morbid view of the Southern backwoods, a native melodrama which is nearing the end of its second year on Broadway...
This excited no more comment than the selling of rosaries opposite St. Peter's. Tired feet are part of the Nazi saga of sacrifice. In Nürnberg all neutral observers noted last week the air of respect and reverence for the Realmleader. At this third Congress since he came to power he seemed to take on a dignity bordering on the religious, enhanced by solemn German chanting in his honor...
...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...