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MOTION PICTURE HERALD
17
BRIGADE" ON VAST SCALE
by gus McCarthy
in Hollywood
definitely demonstrated suitability for the roles assigned them.
Decision to produce the picture traces to Michael Jacoby, one time reviewerreporter, who convinced Jack Warner and Hal Wallis of its desirability and was given the assistance of Rowland Leigh and Sam Bischoff in preparing it for the screen. Almost a year was spent in preparation, with research and authentification carried on at length and in painstaking detail. When production was started plans were made, properly, to emphasize especially the charge sequence from which the picture, like the poem, takes its name. It was for this that Mr. Eason, whose handling of the chariot race in "Ben Hur" and the stampede in "The Last Frontier," is among the unforgettable items of Hollywood history, was called in. Eye witnesses to this episode have described it as among the most exciting ever filmed.
Other sets and scenes are scaled in appropriate dimension. Surat Khan's palace and the ballroom in Calcutta are rich in splendor of setting. The massacre sequence has magnitude, melodrama and action. Off-setting these and other vigorous appeals to interest are the relatively calm and contrastingly effective sequences in which the love story is told.
It is to be conceded, of course, that magnitude in itself is no guarantee of box office success. That has been demonstrated too many times for comfort in any quarter. But when Warner Brothers are the people who are going in for magnitude Hollywood is not accustomed to wagging heads in that knowing, dubious manner, because the succession of Warner experiments in magnitude have had a way of turning out well and there is no very evident reason for thinking their string of successes is likely to be broken at this time. Maybe that, more than the attributes and size and scope of the picture itself, accounts for the rising enthusiasm for "The Charge of the Light Brigade."