Four New Films From Paramount

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 16

Four New Films From Paramount

JPOL'R productions just completed by Paramount, and now about to be shown on the screens of the world, whisk filmgoers to Canada, to Burma, to Europe and to the great south-west of the United States. In Ute Canadian setting is Cecil it. DeMille’s "NorthWest Mounted Police.” with a cast of more than 3000 players headed by 10 top-notch stars. In Burma is the new Dorothy La mour-ltobert Preston-Pres-ton Foster romance "Moon Over Burma," with a refreshing jungle story of adventure and romance in the teak forests.

Set against Europe’s trouble scene is "Arise, My Love," in which Claudette Colbert'and Ray Milland travel from Spain to France, France to Ger-

many, from Germany to Poland, from Poland to England, from England to Finland and from Finland back to France ami then to the United Stares. The time of this film begins witli the end of the Spanish Civil Mar and brings ns up to the present Euroirean conflict, ami yet there is not a single war scene in the picture. In one of the most entertaining ami enlightening pictures of the year. Hi rector Mitchell Leisen has combined drama, comedy and romance in the smoothest piece of cinema artistry seen in :r long time. "Rangers of Fortune.'’ Ihe fourth film, witli its setting in the south-west-ern part, of the United States, ’is unitpie among the quartet of productions in Hint it presents a new screen face in little 13-yeur-old Betty .Brewer, whose debut performance has created a sensation among the critics. Little .Miss Brewer appears in the film with Fred Mac Murray, Patricia Morison. Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland. Since her spectacular first performance, Betty

lias gone to work with Richard Dix in "The Itound-t'p.” and she has been assigned parts in “Now York Town” and "Las Vegas Nights,” both of which will smm go into production, "North West Mounted Police.” most pretentious production of the four, is Cecil B. DeMille's sixt.v-sixth major film, and his first in technicolor. For this picture DeMille selected the most impressive east of all liis productions, with Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll eo-slarred in the principal leads, supported by I’aulette Goddard. Preston Foster. Robert Preston, Akim Tamirol'f, Lynne Overman. George B:rncroft, Lon Chtitiey, jum, Montagu Love ami Walter Hampden. For his first technicolor production, he chose a subject with more beauty and colour than it seems possible Io get into one seen arid - the beautiful Camidiaii Rocky Mountains and the red-coated Mounted Police of Canada,