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Hollywood Spectator
Page Twenty-nine
Under Western Stars does one silly thing. It pre¬ sents Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers, thereby keeping always in the minds of the audience that it is look¬ ing at a screen actor and not at the person he is playing, a treatment which reveals picture intelli¬ gence in its most elemental, infantile stage. But nearly all the smaller Westerns do it. That is one big reason why they remain small.
ENGLAND SERVES A GOOD ONE . . .
• TO THE VICTOR; Gaumont-British; director, Robert Steven¬ son; story, Allred Ollivant; screen play, J. B. Williams; photog¬ rapher, lack Cox; music direction, Louis Levy; film editor. R. E. Dearing. Cast: Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood. Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Wilfred Walter. Eliot Mason, Bromley Davenport, H. F. Maltby, Edmund Breon, Wally Patch, Alf Goddard.
FEATURES: Authentic Scottish background; con¬ sistent, tightly knit story; really thrilling scenes of sheep dogs in action; a grand characterization by a great actor — Will Fyffe; first-class direction. As the American film industry has taught the public to buy only names, the majority of picture patrons in this country are going to miss a treat by their failure to enter theatres which bear only To the Victor on their marquees. Will Fyffe can fill British theatres, but his name means little over here. I saw him in London just before the World War broke and re¬ member him as the only vaudeville performer who :ould make his audience laugh one moment and cry the next. His characterization in this picture, that of an old Scotchman, a drunkard, owner of a champion sheep dog and an attractive daughter, is one of the finest things I have seen on the screen in many a day. Never for a moment does he come out of character; always he is the dour, cunning Scot. The only draw¬ back to American audiences his performance will have is the authenticity of his dialect which at times is a bit too thick to be readily understandable.
Some Great Dog Stuff . . .
OG lovers will find To the Victory fascinating. The work the two leading dogs do in the way of rounding up sheep in the trials for the championship cut is amazing. At the word of command each dog rushes off to find a group of five sheep; locates them, keeps them together, drives them through a gate, up a ramp to a wagon, off the other end, across a bridge formed by two planks without railings, and finally into a small pen, the whole undertaking covering a wide expanse of territory. There is nothing much in
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