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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
Volume XII, No. 6
beth and Cathleen Nesbit plays Lady Macbeth in the British screen version of two famous scenes in Shakespeare’s tragedy of the disintegration of a Scottish king and queen — the scene of the murder of Duncan and the sleepwalking scene. Felix Aylmer plays the doctor and Catherine Lacey the gentlewoman.
The mood and atmosphere of the scenes are conveyed by Director Bennett in simple, unpretentious style. Classes studying Macbeth will gain from the film a visualization of the two leading characters on which teachers may build appropriate lessons in character study.
The film is provided with music composed by Ben Frankel, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Muir Mathieson.
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★ ★ ★
A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA. Force comedy. Produced by Dovid L. Loew. Archie Moyo, Director. Originol screenploy by Joseph Fields ond Rolond Kibbee. Recommended.
The Marx brothers prance, ogle, wisecrack, and play through a night in a Casablanca hotel. That is, Harpo and Chico help try to run down the murderer, while Groucho tries to run down the murderer’s girl friend.
It seems that three successive hotel managers have been murdered by some Nazis tenanted in that place. Of course, nobody knows who did the murdering — hence, the mystery. But those Nazis have to get some of their loot, which is cached somewhere in the hotel.
The mystery seems to run a typical Marx brothers gauntlet : from “who killed the manager?’’ to “who’s got the toupee?’’ to “who’s got my girl?’’ to “who’s got the loot?’’ and back again to
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British Screen Version of the Murder Scene in Macbeth.