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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
Volume XII, No. 1
the Horn to San Francisco. The saga was made entirely at the studio, with synthetic seas and painted cycloramas, a set designer’s field day.
David L. Loew and Jerome Kern have entered the 16mm
field with a series of twelve shorts dramatizing well-known musical selections, under the direction of Werner Janssen, the symphony conductor. The pictures are in color and will be distributed to schools, colleges, and
clubs in the U. S. and throughout the world. In the foreign field it is likely that these 16mm subjects will be handled by the new units organized by Mr. Loew’s brother Arthur, head of Loew’s International.
RECOMMENDED PHOTOPLAYS
Reviewed by Dr* Frederick Houk LaWf Editor^ Educational Department ^ The Readers Digest
THE SOUTHERNER. A story of cotton growing in the South. Loew-Hokim production. Released through United Artists. Jeon Renoir, Director.
The efforts of a tenant farmer in the deep South to grow cotton in spite of poverty, poor soil, floods, and sickness make The Southerner a moving story. Obsessed by the same desire for independence that led early pioneers to take their wives and children into hardships and dangers, Zachary Scott, as the central figure of the story, takes his wife, children, and old “Granny” to an abandoned cotton farm and proposes to stand upon his own feet, come what will.
The novel by George Sessions Perry, upon which the film is based, may have given sufficient motivation for the farmer’s willingness to sacrifice his family to his ambition, but the film does not give him the heroic stature that we ascribe to the pioneers. It fails to elicit the complete sympathy that would make his story epic.
The Southerner far from typifies the lives of cotton planters. It presents an exceptional case
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Jean Renoir, Director of "The Southerner"
and exceptional circumstances.
Beulah Bondi, as “Granny,” the cantankerous old grandmother who rebelled at going to live in a broken-down shacK in a most uninviting region, presents one of the most notable of recent motion-picture characterizations.
The Southerner offers much provocative material for discussion, and it tells an interesting story.
Many scenes are beautifully photographed. The film abounds in artistic directorial touches.
A BELL FOR ADANO. Allied governmenl in Uoly. 20t'h Century-Fox. Henry King, Director. Enthusiastically recommended for all.
A deeply understanding, forward-looking film-story, A Bell for Adano puts into objective and intensely dramatic form the popular novel by John Hersey. That novel made instant appeal because it concerns many lines of common human interest and touches closely many points of em.otional value especially appreciated by the American people at the present time. The motion picture, through realistic as well as romantic presentation, keeps all the emotional values of the novel and gives them added emphasis. In many respects A Bell for Adano is a motion-picture masterpiece.
Appeal to sense of sound is notably strong and adds overtones to the story. The sound is suggested rather than heard.
An American Major (John Hodiak), with his hard-boiled Sergeant (William B e n d i x) , takes command of administration in a mountain town in Sicily. There he endeavors to work