Realism in Film

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 168, 12 April 1935, Page 16

Realism in Film

A MOST realistic bare-knuckle fight can be seen when “The Scarlet Pimpernel’ ’is released by United Artists. The fight is held in a strawstrewn ring in the corner of a field, with a picturesque farmhouse in the background. Carriages and wagonettes are drawn up to form grandstands. The refereee, the local innkeeper, bangs bottles together as a signal for the light to commence. The combatants, stripped to the waist, punch and throw each other in the style permitted in those days.. Many of the scenes in “The Scarlet Pimpernel” were made in the ' open air. A unit spent several days at Lalaham-on-Thames shooting scenes of the escape of the Pimpernel from Paris. A long, tree-lined road with rough and dusty surface was found, and the great coach pulled by four horses, was driven at breakneck speed. “The Scarlet Pimpernel” was produced by Alexander Korda and stars Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon. Record Size Tiger WOUU received by RKO Radio ’’ studios from Frank Buck’s big I game-camera expedition is that the hunter, now in Malaysia making “Fang and Claw” for RKO. has bagged a royal Bengal tiger of record size, and has started out after a saladang, said to be the most ferocious of all beasts.