IN NATURAL COLOUR OUT-OF-DOORS FILM

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 207, 29 May 1936, Page 16

IN NATURAL COLOUR OUT-OF-DOORS FILM

JN Paramount’s new production, -“The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” the first motion picture actually filmed out-of-doors in full Technicolor, makes its bow to the world’s theatregoers. Directed by Henry Hathaway. “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” is a warm, glowing' sympathetic presentation of John Fox. junr's. classic of the Cumberlands. with Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda heading a large and well-chosen cast. The film, which tells of the primitive mountain folk and their instinctive distrust for modern civilisation, lias its action entirely set in. the thick-Iv-wooded hill country of Kentucky, which has given Technicolor photography a magnificent opportunity to bring to the screen all the natural colour and beauty of the magnificent scenery. The colour photography, with admirable restraint, lias entirely avoided flooding the production with gaudy, harsh colours, a fault which was found with many earlier attempts to bring colour to the screen. In “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” the colour has the simplicity and the naturalness of true f-utdoors": it is never too blatant, but rather always easy and understandable. Very often one even feels that rhe action is really taking place before hl; eyes, rather than'on a screen. Every member of the cast, from Miss Sidney, Mac Murray and Fonda, down to the" smallest role, is magnificent, but special mention is deserved by little “Spanky” McFarland, who captures the hearts- of the audience by his portrayal of "Buddie.”

■tPHE sixty-second feature picture to be produced and directed by veteran C. B. de Mille, will be entitled “This Breed of Men,” originally known as “Buffalo Bill.” Gary Cooper has been pencilled in for the part of “Wild Bill Hickok.” To date, Mr. de Milie has been unable to find a screen actress capable of portraying “Calamity Jane,” the leading feminine character in the story, who. despite the fact she was a two-fisted “bull-whacker,” remained the most beautiful and seductive woman in the great wide open spaces of the West