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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the bill at the University this week, after several weeks showing in Boston theatres, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel "The Count of Monte Cristo." Adhering very closely for the most part to the Dumas script the screen adaptation brings to the movie-goer who likes bold adventurers, mellow romance, and plays of a period far removed from our own, an hour's enjoyable entertainment. Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance. Suave, dashing, and clever, he captures to a great degree the manner...
...fortnight as the French Government for 48 hours suppressed films of King Alexander's assassination. All U. S. newsreel syndicates had their films snatched at Cherbourg or Le Bourget, air field. When pressure from French public opinion grew too strong, the Government released in France a carefully cut version. It showed Killer Georgieff on the running board of King Alexander's car but suppressed footage proving that he got there with the greatest of ease because the police cordon was scandalously inadequate...
...captivating presence of Miss Grace Moore of the Metropolitan Opera Company who has a beautiful voice and an extremely gracious person, in fact she is about the best thing that has happened to the screen in many a month. "British Agent"--Leslie Howard and Kay Francis in the screen version of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of diplomatic struggles and intrigue in revolutionary Russia. The film, unfortunately has been moviefied and is not as thrilling as the book...
...Lubitsch version, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is dispatched from Marshovia to Paris to marry his country's richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald) lest she impoverish the royal treasury by marrying a foreigner. He goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who turns out to be the widow in disguise. Meeting her again at a diplomatic reception, he finds it impossible to convince her that his affection is sincere until he has been convicted of treason for failing in his mission...
...year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful to change the date of the action from 1905 to 1885, when the real Prince was a young boy. Although they may disappoint Danilo, these alterations do not spoil the enjoyment of untitled cinemaddicts...