UNITED ARTISTS’ FILMS

Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 9

UNITED ARTISTS’ FILMS

RELEASES FDR 1938 CHANGE IN DISTRIBUTION An important change in the distribution this year of United Artists’ motion pictures is announced by Mr Bernard Allen, general manager in New Zealand for the distributing _ company. In future, commencing with ‘ Action for Slander,’ the first of the 1938 season, all United Artists’ pictures will be released through Amalgamated Theatres’ circuit of approximately 70 theatres, stretching from Dargaville to Invercargill. Tho producers who contribute the major portion of the pictures for United Artists are Sampel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda (London Films), David O. Selzniok, and Walter Wanger, the producer who started the popularity of colour films. United Artists’ producers have set aside a record amount of £7,000,000 for production during 1938 as follows; \ The Samuel Goldwyn productions are: ‘ The Hurricane,’ a story of tho Sputh Seas written by the authors of ‘ The’ Mutiny of the Bounty ’ and ‘ The Goldwyn Follies ’; ‘ The Adventures of Marco Polo,’ starring Gary Cooper, who will also appear in ‘ The Cowboy and the Lady ’ with Merle Oberon; ‘ Honeymoon in'Reno’ and ‘The Duchess of Broadway ’ will also be produced by Goldwyn. The Alexander Korda-London Films productions include ‘ Mutiny in the Mountains,’ starring Sabu, the youngster who fascinated picture patrons in ‘ Elephant Boy ’: John Galsworthy’s ‘ The First and the Last,’ with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier; A. E. W. Mason’s ‘ The Four Feathers ’; Edgar Wallace’s ‘The Squeaker’; Baroness Orczy’s .‘ The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel ’; Mary Borden’s ‘ Action for Slander,’ starring Clive Brook: and Winifred Holtby’s ‘ South Riding,’ with Edna Best and Ralph Richardson; ‘ Over the Mooiij’ a story of the Russian Ballet especially written by G. B. Stern, starring Merle Oberon, who will also be seen with Laurence Olivier in ‘ The Divorce of Lady X.’ in technicolour; ‘ Paradise for Two,’ starring Jack Hulbert and Patricia Ellis; and ‘ The Challenge,’ with Joan Gardner and Louis Trenwer. The David C). Selznick productions are; Mark Twain’s ‘ Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ in technicolour; ‘ Nothing Sacred, with Carole Lombard and Fredric March, also in technicolour, and two additional pictures. Walter Wauger productions are: ‘ 52nd Street,’ with lan Hunter, Pat Paterson, and Leo Carillo; ‘ I Met My Love,’ starring Joan Bennett; ‘ The Man With Ten Models,’ starring Charles Boyer; ‘ Stand In,’ with Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell; ‘ I Love as I Please ’ and ‘ A Kiss in Paris,’ with Madeleine Carrol; and in technicolour ‘ Arabian Nights,’ with Sylvia Sidney, Charles Boyer, Madeleine Carroll, and Joan Bennett. ‘ Action for Slander,’ the first picture to he released under the new distributing arrangement, will be shown at the State to-morrow.