Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the pictures at the Paramount and Fenway this week take place in the North Woods, the big outdoors, but this does not freshen them greatly. "Fifty Roads to Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Silent Barriers", featuring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer, are the pictures; one is sophisticated adventure, the other raw meat. The first is strongly under the influence of "It Happened One Night", which was so good picture that its baleful shadow is still hanging over Hollywood...
...Silent Barriers" has to do with the struggle involved in pushing the tracks of the Canadian Pacific across the mountains of British Columbia. To show you that it is a real outdoor drama with lots of tough men in it, there are some emasculated versions of section gang argot, and an infinite amount of the players barking at each other. There is about the picture a certain inevitable gusto which attaches to any treatment of this sort of material, some genuinely thrilling mountain shots, and a plethora of weak women, outdoor men, and open spaces. Nonetheless, we were glad...
...silent intake of spectators' breaths all but caused a vacuum in the courtroom. At last the fateful decision was at hand, the five-case test of the disputed Wagner Labor Act. Those who had camped at the Court's portal since dawn in order to get seats, felt rewarded. Government attorneys, who had preferred seats, nudged one another expectantly. Mrs. Hughes, who had presumably had a tip from her husband that this would be a good decision day to attend, sat in the front row of spectators paying very close attention...
...maybe of 1940, put their agony in unequivocating words. Declared he: "One of the reasons why we in the Senate find ourselves in trouble at the moment in connection with this problem is the fact that Governmental agencies dealing with labor relationships have been so completely silent respecting the Sit-Down strike. They are very vocal indeed respecting the obligations of the employer, but as silent as the tomb respecting obligations to law and order and the maintenance of civilized society. ... If this proposal goes to a vote on the floor of the Senate and is defeated, the inevitable interpretation...
...Silent Barriers (Gaumont British) amounts to one more indication that Great Britain's cinema industry would do well to give Hollywood an exclusive franchise on celebrations of the British Empire's past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes...