The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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Picture Show Annual 59 " in the wide open spaces where men are men," and not in dark alleys and dank cellars where men are dope addicts. A Scene of Beauty IF the talkies had not brought back the Westerns, we should have lost one of the finest things the screen has given us —the rugged and majestic scenery of the uncivilised West. Some of the settings of Nature to old and new Westerns are alone worth a visit to the cinema. Though it is a long time since I saw the picture, one " shot " in " The Lone Star Ranger " stands out in my memory. The location was Utah, 175 miles from the nearest railway, and the scene was a famous landmark known as " Rainbow Arch." The beauty of that scene will remain in my memory long after the story of the picture has faded— good as is the story, for it is from a novel by Zane Grey. I would have travelled many miles and paid money to look at that scene. It is only one of many that have been given us by (to the Highbrows) the " silly Western pictures." The very sight of the " Educational " makes me shudder, for it, so often divorced from real education, is nearly always allied to primness and a total incapacity to understand human nature. But a lot of us owe something to the Westerns in that they have educated us to the fact that there is something of grandeur in the lives of the hard men who pioneered the West and made it habitable for the softer men who came by railway when the country was settled. Western pictures are made in America and deal with America, but the spirit they breathe belongs to no country. We English did something in pioneer work and colonisation — all over the world. And the Romans did the same thing when we were running about clothed in the skins of animals. It is the spirit that counts. EDWARD Wood. Determined to make " Montana Moon," their first Western talkie, a success, Metro cast Karl Dane, Benny Rubin, and Ukelele Ike to back up Johnny Mack Brown and Joan Crawford with mirth and music. a George O'Brien returned to Westerns when he made Zane Grey's " Lone Star Ranger as a talkie, and Sue Carol Was cast opposite him.