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Producer Walter Wanger and Director Jacques Tourneur have turned Ernest Haycox' slick, colorful, romantic Satevepost serial into a slick, colorful, romantic movie. If life in the old West was not really as much fun as this picture makes out, history is clearly at fault...
...Revenger's Tragedy, by Cyril Tourneur, was the first of the plays read. The second was "Gammer Gurton's Needle," written as for a student production by "S", a student at Cambridge in the fifteenth century, whose full name has been lost to posterity...
SHELL OF DEATH-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Literature account of the murder of Fergus O'Brien, a T. E. Lawrence-like aviator who, unlike his prototype, has involved himself in amorous intrigue. Lines from Tourneur's Elizabethan play, The Revenger's Tragedy, provide the main clue...
...Brass Bottle. In producing Down to the Sea in Ships, Maurice Tourneur, director of The Brass Bottle, dealt very effectively with a large rubber whale and one of the heaviest Northwest gales that ever struck the screen. In the present picture he fashions his effects from the improbable fabric of fancy. In fine, he tries to tell a fairy story. He finds the volatile genie far harder to manage than the rubber whale...
...movies should stay out in the open spaces until The Book of Etiquette is fully memorized by a few of the directors. Members of this school of thought will be finally convinced of the verity of their theory by witnessing the storm in The Isle Of Lost Ships. Maurice Tourneur has done a deluge for the picture quite comparable to the famous precipitation in the Noah period...