(Universal). This picture would never have flashed and chattered from a screen if, as a book, it had not sold so plentifully. It is sprawly narrative, lacking a great climactic situation, lacking a ...

Part 3 of the History of Australian Cinema series. The story of the Australian film industry in the 1930s, from the pioneering days of talkies through to the decline of the industry with the coming of ...

The Big Pond (Paramount). This is another film that has been tailored—far less elaborately than The Love Parade—to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier’s ability ...