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and courteous, Sternberg's is brutal and exaggerated, revealing the effect of local environment on production. Sternberg's colossus contains every vice of the Hollywood firmament yet still contrives to achieve a more persuasive atmosphere than Korda's restraint and accuracy. But Dietrich's Catherine falls in the chocolate-box class whereas Bergner, although miscast, brought at least a cultured ability to her playing. A word must be said for the continuity which moves with tremendous pace of visuals and a clashing of bells and fanfares of trumpets. If you can stomach the gross over-acting, the monstrous leering background and the superficial direction, you may find moments of interest even though it requires a mounted Dietrich leading a cavalry charge up the palace staircase to the accompaniment of the Valkyrie Ride to stir you. Glennon's photography is luscious and the sound tempestuous.
Paul Roth a.
WINGS OVER EVEREST {British. G.—B.). This record of the Houston Mount Everest Flight is unique among the quarter's documentaries. It provides us with views seen by no man other than the four flyers. In the film the material taken on the two flights over Everest and the one over Kanchenjunga has been combined and the shots of the Roof of the World, of Everest among its seventy sister-peaks, of the mass of icy mountains rising into the sky, have a value and impressiveness which would withstand the most indifferent presentation. There are certainly shortcomings in treatment : prolonged sequences describing preparations ; an artificially filmed interlude depicting an accident to the cameraman ; and an unconvincing suggestion that the construction of two aeroplanes affected the unemployment figures in Britain. But these are offset by the economical handling of the Indian sequences, the reproduction of the modest and workmanlike character of the expedition and the effective restraint of Lord Clydesdale's comments after the flight : " Did you get there ? " A nod. " What's it like ? " " All right." We forget any previous shortcomings in the magnificence of the Everest sequences. Two shots are outstanding : the panorama across the mountain tops, with Everest and Makalu in the distance ; and the comparative close-up of the north-east ridge by which the climbers have made their approaches to the crest. S. R. Bonnett's camerawork is consistently fine and the commentary does no obtrude. An important and impressive addition to the growing group of Everest pictures.
F.H.
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