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...Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...
This conglomeration of fable, fantasy and monstrosity is British Producer Alexander Korda's biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...
John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (United Artists) is a dreamy, reverent screen translation of four one-act plays about the sea by Eugene O'Neill. Preceded by enthusiastic rumors heralding it as the best picture since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated home-run hitter going to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. That it failed to clear the bases is as much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality...
...starvation income. Two years ago, the industry belatedly realized the social problem presented by this underpaid army of 15,000 who have been an essential to movie making since the first director photographed the first crowd. At a loss for an answer, the producers met with the Screen Actors Guild, appointed a committee to study the dilemma...
...they presented casters with money orders on Hollywood stores; that they sent their clothes to be cleaned at specified cleaners with currency deposited in specified pockets. Year ago these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors. No report was ever made public by the Guild, but several months later Central had a new manager in blond, pipe-smoking Howard Philbrick, a former G-man who had made a name for himself in California with an investigation of graft...