![]() ![]() Our catalog is built as a reference for our customers, while we do our best to sync our in-stock items on our website. Please note that a product being listed on our website does not necessarily mean it is in stock and readily available for order. Blatt produced by Mark Hellinger for Warner Brothers at the Strand.Tom Prior. The revue was produced in conjunction with the Coast Guard Spars Recruiting Program.Ä«ETWEEN TWO WORLDS screen play by Daniel Fuchs based on a play by Sutton Vane directed by Edward A. Featured also are Gower Champion, Marc Ballero, Marjorie Parker, Tom Bowling, Ted Gary, Coralee Burson, Ed Clay and Harry Blumenthal. Vernon Duke and featuring Victor Mature took the stage at the Strand yesterday. ![]() However, George Coulouris is properly evil as the English millionaire, and George Tobias, Sara Allgood, Isobel Elsom and Faye Emerson are right in other roles."Tars and Spars" on Stage"Tars and Spars," the United States Coast Guard revue with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz, music by Lieut. John Garfield is somewhat too splashy as the brokendown newspaper man, and his popular talent for "tough" roles makes his casting in this dubious. Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker are very good as the sadly romantic "half way" couple, Edmund Gwenn makes a lovable steward and Sydney Greenstreet is amiably rigid as the ultimate Examiner. ![]() Blatt has managed to move his people around with some pain.The performances are generally satisfactory. Otherwise this production is competent, though the script runs entirely to discourse, and Director Edward A. Thus the eerie realization, which came later and slowly in the play, is lost completely in the picture, with its consequent stunning effect. And the resolution or resignation of their personal ills are finally accomplished by the Examiner, who comes aboard at the journey's end.In treatment, the present production aims plainly to plant the fact in the very beginning that the passengers aboard this ship are all dead. Each of them has some phobia or frustration which is gnawing at his heart (if heart you can call it in a dead man). It is the story of these several passing souls who find themselves sailing on a strange ship to a mysterious beyond. And to the passenger list is added an American merchant seaman, who is ultimately reconciled to dying by the knowledge that he died for a cause.Otherwise the story, in substance, is precisely the same as it was in the original. The two passengers, originally known as the "half ways," are here presented as a young pianist and his wife, he a shell-shocked Free Frenchman and she an English girl. But it is also fascinating in its fanciful treatment of death, and response to its spiritual enchantment may be expected from this picture now at the Strand.In modernizing the story, which was first presented as a play in 1923-and then, as a motion picture, in 1930, with Leslie Howard-the Warners have started activities in the London of the present day and have shipped a cargo of passengers, most of whom were killed in a bombing raid. And it is curiously depressing in its exposure of human faults. It has very little to offer in the popular comedy line. Probably because they figured that these are troubled times in which people are more than commonly interested in their spiritual destinies, Warner Brothers have shaken the dust from Sutton Vane's old "Outward Bound" and have remade it in a modern version under the title "Between Two Worlds." Obviously the Warners were tempting fate themselves, for this study of death and the hereafter is notoriously wistful and grim. ![]()
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