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...Golem on an expressionistic rampage (see cut). Last year. Production Manager Frank Kassler of A-B (for nothing) Films, which makes most of Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem. He hired Director Julien Duvivier (La Maternelle), Actor Harry Baur (Les Miserables), spent $200,000 building a medieval ghetto in his Prague studio, set to work with a French script...
Equipped with a serious, timely theme, a full-blown performance by Actor Baur, for whom madmen and the like are a specialty, The Golem does not aim to be a horror picture. Nonetheless, ably directed, festooned with English subtitles, its principal message for cinemaddicts who remember its predecessor will be that old Golems are the best Golems. Good shot: Ru dolph trying to engage the Golem in talk, raging when the statue fails to answer...
...middle-class English parents -his father was a piano salesman and his mother kept a boardinghouse-Noel gave early indications of that instability which marks the born actor. He had tantrums, enjoyed working himself into hysterics over fancied disasters. As a boy he had a good voice, occasionally sang anthems in church: "but I hated doing this because the lack of applause depressed me." At 10 he played his first professional part, in an all-children cast, and knew why he had been born. From then on it was simply a question of finding better and better parts, of having...
...getting his jailer to have a few drinks while Neil was being taken east, got him then to go to a burlesque show, after which the evening wound up by Neil putting the warden to bed. The convict was next heard of when he posed as a movie actor and made a personal appearance in New Orleans...
...weeks before scheduled, Author-Actor Noel Coward closed his Tonight at 8:30 series in Manhattan, pleading laryngitis and nervous exhaustion...