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Dore Schary was fully aware that the MGM studio reputation depended on good entertainment. Some thought was given to remaking TRADER HORN, but it was decided that "King Solomon's Mines" would make a strong African adventure. The film was very popular, so the studio must have thought their money well spent. Like TRADER HORN, it was filmed in Africa. As against this, audiences roared with laughter when Deborah Kerr, having washed her hair in the jungle, looked as though she had just popped out of the studio beauty parlor - which may be the fault either of director Compton Bennett, again on loan to M-G-M, or of the second-unite director with whom he was compelled to share credit, Andrew Marton. Stewart Granger, according to Bennett, was 'monstrously difficult' to work with, but this British acquisition was ideal material for Schary's plan to remake two of the company's silent successes, SCARAMOUCHE and THE PRISONER OD ZENDA both for 1952.
The 'great white hunter' genre of adventure films has been a movie staple for ages, yet only one rates as a cinema classic. That picture is the rousing adventure " King Solomon's Mines. " Stewart Granger guides a party through darkest Africa in search of a lady's husband. Don't let this surprise you, but on the way, the hunter and the lady - Deborah Kerr - become fast friends. Sounds like a pritty basic plot, doesn't it? Why, then, has it stood the test of time where other jungle safari pics have faded? The seemingly routine script is actually an exceptional blend of action and suspense. The brilliant location photography has never been excelled, and the acting is first-rate.
approx. film running-time 102 minutes
MUSIC HALL PRESENTS AN INTERESTING FILM.
Reviewed in the DAILY NEWS (New York's Picture Newspaper by Wanda Hale
Friday, June 3rd, 1949
"Edward, My Son," though too theatrical to be a great drama, is a good show and a great showpiece for actors. Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr and Loueen MacGrath, taking advantage of the rare opportunity to unleash their emotions, strut their stuff, Miss Kerr with reserve, Miss MacGrath with both reserve and abandon and Tracy with sincerity but not conviction. This new picture at the Music Hall will be widely discussed.
An unusual aspect is Edward's absence from the picture. Not once does the subject of the drama appear but as his father, mother and family doctor do most of thge talking, there are few conversations that do not include him. From the talk we learn that, with the exception of his father, everyone thinks he is a spoiled brat, the victim of his over-indulgent father.
In an English play, by Robert Morely and Noel Langley, with an all English cast, Spencer Tracy doesn't win, show or place in the acting. He is overshadowed by Miss Kerr, Ian Hunter, felix Aylmer and Mervyn Johns. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made the picture and to sell it here, a big, American star had to be in it. Directing, George Cukor does an adequate job of condensing 20 years of life into a little less than two hours on the screen.
On the Great Music Hall stage is a lavish revue, "MERRY MINSTRELS."
approx. film running-time 1 hour/53 minutes.
Horror / Suspense and
CRIME and FRIGHT Films
The AVENGER - of depression in the elderly:
Why do so many old folks wind up in a nursing home after a hospital stay? Because the hospital experience itself can bring such confusion, or cause so much loss of mobility, that the patient loses function dramatically and can no longer manage at home alone.
One of the special programs devised for these older falk is a weekly visit at their own home from Gundy the German shepherd, a retired guide dog whom the Good Dog Foundation of Brooklyn has certified as a therapy dog. To see an elderly person who is suffering from depression or dementia smile again comes about when trained volunteers walk with this person to help prevent delirium, assist with meals and provide activities like arts, crafts and music; they also help the elder person get to sleep by massaging their back and bringing them warm beverages.COPING WITH DAD'S DEATH Jason Ritter, son of the late John Ritter, says he found solace in his CBS show, "Joan of Arcadia," after his father died. "The first script I received of 'Joan of Arcadia' after my dad died was this episode called 'Death Be Not Whatever,' which is all about death." Ritter told SCI FI Wire. "And one of the quotes in it . . . came from one of the other characters [who] was talking to Mary Steenburgen's character about the loss of Kevin's legs, and how it's sort of like death.
"And he said,'The philosopher Kierkegaard said, "The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have."
"And I read that, and . . . that was all I had been doing." On "Joan" - which has been renewed for another season - Ritter plays Kevin Girardi, the disabled brother of Joan (Amber Tamblyn), who communicates with God.
"Whatever happens after you die, I don't know. I don't know where my dad is. I don't know," Ritter said. "But I just know that if he was still alive, what he would want me to do is not crawl into a cave and wither away. Which is, you know - that's one thing that you feel. "But instead [he would want me] to take life and just squeeze the last drop out of it and never let moments go unseized." John Ritter, who was starring in ABC's "8 Simple Rules," collapsed and died September 11th, 2003 from an undetected heart ailment. He was 54. ABC has continued the series without Ritter, bringing in TV veteran James Garner and former "Just Shoot Me" star David Spade. New VAN GOGH letter
a glimpse into family grief A recently discovered letter by Vincent van Gogh on display for the first time speaks of a tiny grave and his father's grief over the loss of his first child - a boy also named Vincent who was stillborn.
The 1877 letter, the first authenticated one by Van Gogh to surface since 1990, is the only known reference by the artist to the family tragedy, said Leo Jansen, a researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, which added the letter to its exhibition in Amsterdam on Thursday (1/22/04).
He and other experts say its calm tone contradicts theories by some biographers that Van Gogh may have suffered from alienation as a "replacement child." Van Gogh was born March 30th, 1853, exactly a year after his mother gave birth to a stillborn boy. "There has been much speculation about the effect this event must have had on Vincent - the inevitable trauma of being the 'replacement child' and the influence this supposedly had on the development of his personality," Jansen and two colleagues said in a paper due next month. But, they concluded, "there is nothing to indicate that Van Gogh dwelled excessively on the event; on the contrary, he attaches to it no personal emotion or recollection."
( Albany, New York - TIMES UNION / Friday, January 23, 2004 )
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