Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From first to last J. Arthur Rank's "Scott of the Antarctic" is a melodrama--in the most favorable sense of the word. It tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's last expedition in 1908 into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...
...Frend has innumerable opportunities to fill the picture with false heroics; especially when Scott and his men discover that they are not the first to reach the Pole, for Amundsen's Norwegian flag is already planted there. It is much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...
...story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...
...Easy Living" at the Keith Memorial, the story of pro football in which Vic Mature kicks around Liz Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street...
Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...