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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1944
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RADIO PROGRAMS MUSIC-RESORTS
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IV
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Excerpts From Full-Column, Front-Page Sunday Drama Section Article
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The Playbill: Sign of Cross Significantly Reappears
By OTIS L. GUERNSEY Jr.
\I/HEN "The Sign of the Cross" VV comes to the Victoria, it will-ha one nf tliP hpst. pif>tnres alony Rrnadway , . Paramount is reissuing the film, not merely reviving it, and a whole new prologue has been added showing modern characters flying over Rome in an Army bomber . . .
It is modern enough so that there are no glaring technical imperfections to spoil enjoyment of it in 1944. At the same time, it is old enough to antedate most of today's coin of the Hollywood realm . . .
"The Sign of the Cross" has stood the test of time ... It still measures up to standard. Laughton's version of the sadistic, orgiastic Nero is boldly realistic . . . Fredric March gives an excellent impression . . . Claudette Colbert is a perfect seductress . . .
But it is principally DeMille's approach to the subject that gives the film its timeless vitalitv. He has blood in his eye as he looks at the early days when tolerance for Christianity was won by sacrifice, and he pulls very few emotional or visual punches. There is ho compromise made with death in the great Coliseum scene in which gladiators engage in a life-and-death struggle with other men, or wild beasts. Such a scene is a reminder that our modern mel odramatics have become nambvpamby indeed. There is other "spectacle" in the picture, too . . . thunfor instance, ■^'^r^ amous milk ba
FREDRIC MARCH ELISSA LANDI CLAUDETTE COLBERT CHARLES LAUGHTON
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