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Scarlet Dawn (Warner). Soviet Russia interests Hollywood profoundly. Most of the major producers feel sure that there is a good scenario somewhere in the Five-Year Plan and they are trying hard to find it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness...
...Phantom of Crestwood (RKO). Before this mystery picture was released last fortnight, it was exploited in an ingenious way. Once a week for six weeks National Broadcasting Company (like RKO a subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America) broadcast chapters worked up from the scenario of the picture. The radio script did not reveal the solution to the mystery; radio listeners were invited to suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements...
...Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...
...pass him on the street. "Ach," he says, "you are a crook. No, you are head of a gang of blackmailers. . . . You know everything, everybody." Pleased at his prowess in such conceits, he assumes a wise expression and rolls his eyes ? the cameras for an endless hypothetical scenario...
...Film itself is taken from a scenario prepared by the Paramount Company's writers and typifies the simple French cinemas of provincial life. It was chosen as a contrast to "Le Million", an urbane and more sophisticated example of screen...