FILM RIGHTS FOR LAWRENCE NOVEL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 10

FILM RIGHTS FOR LAWRENCE NOVEL

•New- York critics- -are ehowihg.. sucb enthusiasm for British and Contanental films that '. they are ' being accused of' bias, says a. London writer. Makers and exhibitors of . Anierican pietures do not object to enthusiasm for British jroductions like "Nine ;Days . a VQueen" ("Tudor , Bose'.'}, ' 1 Rembrandt ' > and ' ' Elephant Boy. ' ' What annoys them ds tho critice' alleged partiality for pietures with scenes "Rdiich would be banned, on political or nioral grounds, if they were American. This applies more espebially to Continental films, though a considerable number of British producfcions, from "Noll Gwynn" to "Scotland Yard Commands" ("Tho Lonely Boad," starring Clive Brook) have had censor•ship trouble. ''The Lonely Road," vrtien Gubmitted" to ;the Hayi5 organisation 'eix months ago, vas rofused a certiiieafce until

340ft. — about four minutes' actual running time, had been cut. All the cuts have been made, yct the public, it ds complained, still see an .attempted double muxder by the use of a machhie-gun and a strangulation — both too detailed and vivid to pass the censorship if they had occurred in an American picfcure.; Complaint would seem to have more justification dn the cass of certain f oreign-lrmguage filma like 1 ' Ecstasy ' ' and "Lucrezia Borgia." Encouraged by the showing of such productions, independent Hollywood produce rs are now offiering £2000 for the fihn riglits of I>. H. Lawrence 's "Lady Chatterley's Lover."