Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem. He hired Director Julien Duvivier (La Maternelle), Actor Harry Baur (Les Miserables), spent $200,000 building a medieval ghetto in his Prague studio, set to work with a French script...
...ended the career of the last authentic Star Reporter of national renown. Fifty-five when he died, Reporter Rogers had worked on the Post-Dispatch for 20 years, on other papers for 13 before that. If his exploits are made the basis for a melodramatic newspaper film, the script will require the addition of no synthetic excitement, for Reporter Rogers' professional life was as adventurous as they come...
...terribly upset!" moaned Authoress Joan Young. "There was nothing regarding Mrs. Simpson in my script. I was shocked and astounded! I cannot say anything more, as the B. B. C. will not allow...
Comedian. John Rorke, having eased his itch, was overwhelmed with a sense of having probably lost his B. B. C. job, and with remorse. Distractedly he said he had meant to shout "YES, MRS. GIBSON!" although that was also no part of the script. "It was a slip of the tongue," he moaned inconsolably. "I would not say anything out of place about any living being, my former King or a peasant...
Then, for a smashing finale, the script forsakes Pearl Buck for the first time to invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally...