Boy's Cinema (1935-39)

Every Tuesday 1X2:^631233?^ All letters to the Editor should be adiressei to BOY'S CINEMA, Room 220, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. They Missed Him There are many tales current about the " ciisceniiiig " movie executives who casually drop in on amateur perform- ances and immediately find unknowns who boomed overnight as motion-picture stars. But those discerning , executives mnst liave been away on a holiday when Joe Moirison first visited the American film capital. Monison, who has made sensational progress in his brief year in the films (ills latest film is "Four Hours to Kill "), is no stranger to Hollywood, lu fact, if producers v.ere as astute as legend tells ns, then Morrison might have been procured for the screen years ago. At that time Morrison was featured iii a musical show called " The Nine O'clock Revue," which played a success- ful run in a Los Angeles theatre. Virtu- ally every important person in the cinema city went and saw the show, but not one considered Morrison as a film prospect, or had the temerity to make an offer for his services. It remained for Morrison to return to New York and ) ise (o world-wide fame with his singing of the song, "The I^ast Round-up," before Hollywood took him back amid shouts and hurrahs. Hectic Qambling Vast fortunes arc being made—and lost—in Sunuiel Goldwyn's Hollywood studios. But Sam himself is quite un- concerned and goes on his lawful occa- sions JTi a peifectly normal maimer, despite the unaccustomed tension and ex- citement. The reason for his placidity is simply that the financial fever is confined to the set on which "Barbary Coast" is being made. The scene is a garish, noisy gambling casino where the size of the stakes would make the eyes of a Monte Carlo croupier bulge with mingled envy and incredulity. At the cry of "camera!" the dice roll —and a dollar millionaire becomes a pauper. The roulette wheel spins, and a woman, laughing hysterically, grabs a fortune with eager, jewelled hands. At another table sits a gronp of hard-faced men playing poker with giim determina tion aiul stacks of chip.s a foot high. A little way off, out of focus of the (■a)nera, another game of poker is in progress. But the gamblers are playing for pennies. You see, they are merely extras, whiling away the time until thn camera should claim them. Past-moving Action The oft-expressed idcik that "moving pictures should move " has reached its ultimate in execution in the latest featinc film to go into production at a Holly- wood studio. It coveis a period of eight hours and crams hectic events that crowd those eight hours into an hour and a C|uartc)' of screen entertaitmient. Studio executives believe that it is one of the fastest pictures, in point of lightning-like succession of action, ever made. August 24lh, 1935. NEXT WEEK'S BIG FILM THRILLERS PRESTON FOSTER IN " THE PEOPLE'S ENEMY " Thirty-four times George Stuart, a clever attorney, had managed to save his gangster client, Vince Falcone, from the clutches of the law ; but the law triumphed in the end, and Falcone—in gaol—became convinced that Stuart had double-crossed him and swore vengeance upon his benefactor. "STRANDED " The man was a bnilder of bridges, the strong, fearless he-man type, and the girl was the mainstay of the Travellers' Aid Society. Both were independent and stroni'-w.lled, and but for a gang of crooks they might have been "stranded.'' Starring Kay Francis and George Brent. " BULLDOO lACK " Bulldog Drummond is incapacitated by a gang of crooks and Bulldog (Tack nobly promises to undertake a difiBcuIt and dangerous commission. A comedy thriller centring roand a gitl in distress, a valuable necklace and a deserted underground railway station, starring Jack Hulbert and Fay Wray. Also Another splendid episode of the thrilling serial of jungle adventure : " THE CALL OF THE SAVAGE." Starring Noah Beery, Jun., and Dorothy Short. This is "Woman Wanted," whicli George B. Seitz is directing for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. Maureen O'Sullivan and Joel McCrea are teamed for the first time. In it Lewis StonS starts the new contract that marks his twentieth year on the .screen. The cast- also in- cludes Adrionnc Ajncs, Ralph Morgan, Louis Ciilhern, Claude Gillingwater and Robert Craig. Events crammed into a single even- ing's entertainment in the action of the picture include a girl's conviction of murder; wrecking of a police ear by criminals (o aid her esciipe; breathless escapes from pursuing detectives in her lawyer's apartments; wild chase with police to trail the real murderer; kidnap- |)ing of the heroine; battle on a boat in the harbour; raid on secret hide-out of criminals; re-enactment of a crime, and amid all the action several comedy sequences are introduced! In the New Tarzan Film Jock Buckler, the heroic Ham Pcg- gotty of "David Copperfield," won a loMg-terni contract with the studio that raised him to film fame—and the role of Major Fry in Mctro-Goldwyn-Muyer's new Tarzan picture. Buckler's part in the new jungle film is second in importance to those of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, who again portray the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs characters, Tarzan and Jane. Since "David Coppeifield," Buckler has appeared in two pictures, "Eig^t Bells" and ''Black Room Mystery." i' Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Buckler toured the British Colonies all over the world with his father's com- pany, then went into American repertory companies and finally on to the Broad- way stage, with Katharine Cornell in "The Green Hat." .j: The opening sequences of this nwv. Tarzan film begin with imder-water swimming shots of Weissnudler and ;^faureen O'Sullivan, the latter now an accomplished swimmer under her co- player's tutelage. Animals galore and ati entire tribe of African pygmies are features of the new production. THIS WEEK'S CASTS "FOUR HOURS TO KILL"—Toni/ Mtiko, Richard Barthelmess; Eililie Millfr, .Joe Morrison; Si/lrin Temple, Gertrude Michael; HrUit, Helen ^lack; Mac Danish, Dorothy Tree; Carl Barrett, Ray Milland; Detective Taft, Charles Wilson; Mitr. Maxnn. Ilcnry Travers; Ander- son. Noel Madi.ion; Captain Searcr, I'aul Harvev. " The SILVER STREAK "—Turn Cnhl- irrll. Charles Starrett; Ituth Dexter, Sally Hlano: Allan Dexter. Hardie Albright; B. J. Dexter, William Karnum; Bremte, Irving Pichel; Crawjnrd, Arthur I^ake; Ti/ler, Theodore von Eltz; Hir/gin.i, Guinn Williams; O'Brien, Edgar Kennedy; Dr. t'lj/nn, Afurray Kinnoll; Loicry, .Tames Brj'dburv. "DEATH FROM A DISTANCE" D< Irrlire-inspiclrir Ted Midhuii, Russell Hopton; Ka;i Bahiier, Ix)la fjane; Jim (Iray, (Jeorge Afarlon, Sen. ; Prn/e.tfor Troirhridf/e. .Tohu St. Polls; I'rojef»or Krn.it Einfrld, Lee Kohlmar; Bet/an, Lew Kelly; Tjdnij.idale, Wheeler Oaknian; Mor- <ian, Robert Frazer; (lorman, Cor- nelius Keefo: District .\tlnrneji Captain E. H. Calvert; Alimed Haidrit* .John David.son.