Eugene O'Neill Sea Drama For The Screen

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 6

Eugene O'Neill Sea Drama For The Screen

TN the frontier drama, “Stagecoach,'’ John Ford pictured the plight of nine strange people who dared attacks by Indians to reach Lordsburg after an extraordinary 48-hour ride. In his fortlicoming film, “The Long Voyage Home,” Ford will reveal the tense real life adventure of 10 characters aboard a merchant ship carrying a cargo of high explosives. Eugene O’Neill is the author of the thrilling sea story and Dudley Nicholls, who adapted “Stagecoach" to the screen, is writing the new screenplay. John Wayne and Thomas Mitchell, who rode the stagecoach a year ago, are among the gallant seamen of the new film.

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii’ 'Alice Faye In Historical Film r pHE boisterous New York of the old X days is brought to the screen in “Little Old New York,” witli Alice Faye, Richard Greene, Fred Mac Murray and Brenda Joyce heading the cast. This robust, romantic drama, which will soon be released in New Zealand, gives. Alice Faye her most colourful role as a fiery belle of the waterfront who fell in love with handsome Robert Fulton, inventor of the first steamboat. Mac Murray is seen as the burly shipbuilder engaged to build the Clermont, after Fulton’s models. Greene is seen as the dashing inventor himself, and blonde Brenda Joyce has the role of the lovely girl who loved him, helped him to attain his dream in the face of ridicule, and who later became his wife. Others prominently featured in the cast are Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson and Fritz Feld.

npi-IE famous director Fritz Lang is returning to picture-making. Lang has been engaged by Darryl Zanuck to guide the making of “The Return of Frank James.” a sequel to “Jessie James.” All the available members of the “Jesse James” cast—except Tyronne Power, who was killed in the picture—will be employed. Henry Fonda is to be the star.