Word: tourneur
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...