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No film holdings matched "Adventure | Drama | Historical | Romance | War" in title — but it appears in catalogs below.
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Educational Screen 1943 — page 151
…ALGIERS—10 reels—starring Charles Boyer, in a colorful drama of suspense and romance, against the teeming background of the Casbah in Algiers. BACK…
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Educational Screen 1936 — page 148
…5-5-36 (A) (Y) Fairly good (C) Perhaps The Divine Flame (Marta Eggerth, Philips Holmes) (Gaumont-British) Historical romance on life of composer…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 142
…Vacuous "society" drama of wrangling romance, resorting to low comedy, crude slapstick, raucous dialog, and burlesqued character. Many laughs for the general pub- lic…
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Educational Screen 1940 — page 372
…a bit of romance. (A) Fair (Y) Hardly (C) No River's End (Victor Jory, Dennis Morgan) (Warners) Mediocre adventure yarn of far north…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 55
…She won't — but does, after crazy adventures in the South Seas. I^ively little romance, with rather good possibilities, but ruined by crudity…
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Educational Screen 1926-1927 — page 367
…The historical drama again, made interesting as well as instructive by good casting and direction. The Dark Angel (First National) — A wartime story of…
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Educational Screen 1926-1927 — page 1023
…and Distributors) Fkontieksman, The (Tim McCoy) Metro "Historical Western" of 1913, with hoop skirts, frontier adventure, and much, much fighting. Mc- Coy's work…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 266
…Fox) Elaborate, impressive composite of history, high adventure, African scenery and ex- traneous romance. More chronicle than drama. Two heroes divide interest, alternate success…
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Educational Screen 1943 — page 400
…Prior to the war this company procured a series of films based on American History. It is the plan to renew production with a…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 188
…Happy-go-lucky nephew of a rich manu- facturer of health foods finds romance and adventure on the air waves. In the cast are…
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Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 19
…adventures of two American soldiers who find them- selves in the Orient after escaping from a German prison camp. Some drama, some romance, and…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 218
…Al- lan) (Fox) Powerful, grim, vivid drama of slave trading before Civil War. Cruel, unscrupulous crew mutinies when captain tries to quit busi- ness…
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Educational Screen 1936 — page 217
…Barrymore) (Fox) Impressive, forceful .n;_ictmcnc of futil ity of war, notably acted. Grim, realistic bat- tle scenes and effective dramatic episodes. Cen- tral…
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Educational Screen 1940 — page 184
…Ruth Gor- don) (Warner) Masterpiece of historical bio- graphy. Realistic, superbly filmed authentic ibio- graphy of German-Jewish doctor's struggles againsbintolvrance. ignorance and…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 110
…Jean Muir) (Warn.) Serious drama of hard-working young surgeon whose promising career is wrecked by treachery of drunken doctor pal until letter's…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 414
…Civics and History—includes a num- ber of Warner Bros, dramatic and his- torical films in technicolor. Health and Safety—recent additions to which…
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Educational Screen 1938 — page 196
…adventures, by turns interesting, amusing and absurd, faint- ly historical, with several fine roles. But pond- erous, laboriously exotic, dramatically loose and overdone. 5…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 657
…Alcott's book. "Little Men" emerges on the screen as adult entertainment featuring 1 drama romance and hilarious comedy, yet retaining the charm of…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 609
…Alcott's boolc, "Little Men" emerge on th e screen as adult entertainment featuring 1 drama romance and hilarious comedy, yet retaining the charm…
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Educational Screen 1923 — page 72
…A splendid production, correct in historical detail, and filmed with fine eflfect. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (24 reels) Universal — A "chapter play" which…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 224
…Aheme, Rains, Garfield, Daven- port, Crisp, Sondergaard, Bette Davis) (Warner) Masterpiece of historical drama, accurate, pow- erful, splendidly written, acted and directed, and at…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 272
…9-28-37 (A) Hardly (Y| Better not (C) No Paradise Isle(Movita, Warren Hull (Monogram) Agreeable little South Sea Island romance be- tween…
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Educational Screen 1938 — page 256
…10-11-38 (A) Good of kind (Y) No (C) No Conrier of Lyons (French, English titles) (Pax) Forceful, well-directed, historical drama based…
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Educational Screen 1938 — page 218
…history of jazz from 1912 to present, effectively woven into progress of plausible, interest-holding story about career of band and dramatic romance of…
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Educational Screen 1940 — page 94
…1-23-40 (A) & (Y) Very entertaining (C) Good Fighting 69th, The (Cagney, O'Brien, Brent) (Warner) Powerful war drama, finely acted by excellent…
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Educational Screen 1938 — page 72
…Notable role by Connolly as warden. Other- wise a depressing jumble of weak story, dull romance and dramatic falsities. 1-25-38 'A» Feeble…
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Educational Screen 1922 — page 154
…The picture is not a filming of Shakespeare's drama, but a life story of this famous historical character. Antony and Cleopatra 8 reels…
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Educational Screen 1936 — page 312
…11-24-36 (A) Mediocre (Y) Better not (C) No Charge of the Light Brigade (Errol Flynn, De Haviland) (Warner) Technical masterpiece. Romanticized history…
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Educational Screen 1936 — page 246
…Spring By- ington)(Fox) A humorous, realistic little com- edy-drama relating prosaic adventures of the Jones family, an average small-town American family…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 344
…romancing by overdrawn, unconvincing characters, in supposed college setting. 10-24-39 (A) Mediocre (Y) and (C) No The Roaring Twenties (Cagney, Bogart) (War…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 176
…4-11-39 (A) Hardly (Y) No (C) No Dodge City (Errol Flynn, de Havilland) (War- ner) Lavish Technicolor western thriller, bury- ing history…
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Educational Screen 1936 — page 216
…Dick Powell) (Warner) Idyllic romance of Jerome Bonaparte and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore depicted against charming settings. Interesting mostly for histori- cal background and…
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Educational Screen 1943 — page 119
…The critics call this a "must' picture. "THE SPOILERS" Here is the picture that made motion picture history with the dramatic fight between John…
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Educational Screen 1924-1925 — page 113
…Being a regular boy, Stephen makes his own history in a series of lively adventures. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is a nice y.oungster with…
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Educational Screen 1935 — page 20
…War- ren William ) ( Universal ) Dramatic story de- picting courage and sacrifice of two mothers, one white and other black, who have developed successful business…
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Educational Screen 1935 — page 226
…on each film. (A) Discriminating Adults (Y) Youth (C) Children of romance, drama and tragedy of Stephen Foster's life, with charming setting and…
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Educational Screen 1935 — page 127
…Heavy-jowled hero tries to look dy- namic as big boss and leader in a taxi war, with side-line activities in racetrack, romance…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 244
…Rains, Gar- field) (Warner) Hilarious romances of four very modern daughters of broken home, complicated by deserter-father's return, about-to-be step…
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Educational Screen 1939 — page 142
…Irene Dunne) (RKO) A masterpiece of cinema, in character, drama, settings, sound, photography, acting and direc- tion. Mature romance between European playboy and American…
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Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 238
…Gang War (Jack Pickford) Hardly No No (F.B.O.) Two gangs in bootleg war etc., etc. Grain of Dust, The (Ricardo Cor- Mediocre…
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Educational Screen 1938 — page 232
…Scott, Robson) (Para) Post Civil War story, weak, preposter- ous in spots. But dramatic trek with 10,000 cattle across Texas and the Rio…
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Educational Screen 1935 — page 78
…Eerie atmosphere and suspense make rather good adventure stuff. 2-26-35 A—Amusing Y—Thrilling C—Fair Hell in the Heavens (Warner Baxter…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 24
…High historical value, vivid character interest, but DeMille must have his moments of torturing drama and agonizing, incredible heroics. 1-6-37 (A-Y…
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Educational Screen 1940 — page 230
…Ralph Rich- ardson) (U.A.)British documentary film on pres- ent war. Glorifies modern, incredibly systematized warfare. Royal AirForcereenacts elaborately or- ganized bombing of…
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Educational Screen 1934 — page 135
…drama." A—Crude Y—Unwholesome C—No Horse Play (Slim Summerville, Andy Devinet i Universal i Stupid hash of labored comedy and crazy adventures…
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Educational Screen 1946-1947 — page 464
…Combi- nation of music, romance and drama. Sing a Jingle — 6 reels — in which hero, a radio crooner (Allan Jones), drops out of sight…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 46
…The scenes they have provided give this News Parade a dramatic and historic thrill such as film audiences have sel- dom experienced. In contrast…
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Educational Screen 1937 — page 286
…Warren William) I MGM) Commendably producer! and acted ver- sion of famous play, probably too outdated to have much appeal. Distressing, unbelievable drama of…
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Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 666
…Massey and Basil Rathbone—a drama of mystery -^ I) . and intrigue, a combination of exciting adventure and romance with much sus- penseful action. BELL…
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Educational Screen 1943 — page 66
…T^e critics call this a "must' picture. "THE SPOILERS'* Here is the picture 'ihat made motion picture history with the dramatic fight between…