Word: warners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...
...Heart of the North, not to be confused with Spawn of the North (TIME, Sept. 5), Warner Bros, dumped 1,500 Ibs. of dye into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...
...their widely ballyhooed "Angels With Dirty Faces" Warner Brothers have cut through to the very core of things and emerged with one of those fundamental truths that can mould the future of the world: "Crime does not pay!" Unfortunately, the same will be found true of this picture...
...Cagney saves Mr. O'Brien's life by yanking him out of the way of a locomotive. This is really a pity, since one grows into a reforming priest, the other a big shot gangster. Their paths cross years later, and you know the rest as well as Warner Brothers...
...Castings: Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell (Twentieth Century-Fox); Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth the Queen, as Henriette in All this, and Heaven too, and as the nun in The Miracle (Warner Brothers); 90 midgets in The Wizard of Oz (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...