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James tried to quote his own school motto, came out with "Omnia labora vinces," looked puzzled as students roared.* Because she was traveling on an Italian passport with her producer-husband Monty Banks (born Mario Bianchi), technically an enemy alien, blowzy British Cine-comedienne Gracie Fields, C. B. E., was halted by Canadian immigration authorities, given a two-hour grilling before being granted a two-month-stay permit, allowed to continue to California...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
This heiress, Irene Dunne, is an escapist from that "small circle that lives and dies within the circle." The prize fighter, Fred MacMurray, is different from most cine-maulers. What keeps him punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round...
Thus, when the earthquake-which cine-maddicts with sensitive eardrums have been anticipating nervously ever since the establishment of the story's time and place -finally begins to rattle, it is almost an anticlimax. Unlike the same phenomenon in San Francisco, it inflicts no more than a few severe bruises on the cast, leaving most of them intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will...
They Were Five (Cine-Arys). Skilled French cast, headed by Jean Gabin, in Julien Duvivier's graceful little story about five Parisian derelicts who win 100,000 francs in a lottery...