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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
Quality Street (RKO) is James M. Barrie's fantasy about the ringleted Phoebe Throssel (Katharine Hepburn) who lets the dashing Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone) go off to fight Napoleon, not dreaming that he loves her, and has to win him back after a ten-year hiatus has swallowed up her ringlets. Struck to the heart because he fails to recognize gaunt-faced Schoolmistress Throssel as the girl whom he once compared, in a nice turn of rhetoric, to a garden, she creates a new identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary...
...Magic Carpet" and "Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman," the cinema MARCH OF TIME was hailed enthusiastically by cinema critics, dubiously by the industry. Currently, its audience appeal wholly vindicated by its influence on other newsreels as well as by its popularity, the monthly two-reeler, distributed by RKO, is being shown in 7,560 U. S., 1,247 British Isle, 485 Australian and New Zealand and 750 Spanish-speaking theatres. Next month THE MARCH OF TIME will move into its own three-story Manhattan building. Last week's award coincided with MARCH OF TIME'S first French translation...
Michael Sirogoff (RKO) starts with a battle and ends with a siege. The body of the picture contains a massacre, a fight between a bear and a man, two horse-whippings, several murders, the spectacle of an executioner drawing a red-hot sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell...
...outdoor sequences were actually filmed in Siberia, giving the picture a photographic validity that could not possibly have been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German by Producer Joseph Ermolieff. RKO's smart Producer Pandro Saul Berman (Winterset, Swing Time} bought the U. S. rights to the picture for $75,000, but instead of showing it with subtitles or dubbed-in sound, he proceeded...