BORDER RAIDS—IN COLOUR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 10

BORDER RAIDS—IN COLOUR

Marcel Hellman, joint head of Criterion • Films, who, • in- the temporary absence in Hollywood of Douglas Fairbanks, junr., is .producing "Playboy" at Denham for Excelsior Film Productions, Ltd., the additiohal company which he has formied, 'annbunces that he will make * thle - def erred Scottish Border picture dealing-with the romantic 15th century Border. rqids in.August of this ; year. It is • no w titled ' ' High Treason^ ' ' which may possibly be made in colour. The Excelsior picture which Hellman puts on the floor at Denham for London Films with Jack Hulbert starring is the result of a friendship formed this year at St. Moritz, when Hulbert and Hellman met repeatedly on the skiing slopes. The two formulated the itlca while in Switzerlalid of maldng a picture with a military backgrouiid, but after conferoiicee they deeid-ed to mako their first eollaboration a baekstago coniedy with Jack in tlic part of a theatre manager.

Every one who sees the picture* will c&rry away with him that part which he most wishes to. I would be putting myself in an awful spot if I attempted to .explain its sigiiifi'cahce in connection with this picture. Lubitsch pointedi out that Miss -Dietrich ^lays • \vitE Herbert Marshall- and • Melvyn Douglas in "the* production and.to one she is an angel, to the other a devil. Tet? each man regards ' her in his own mind as the reverse to what. she is toward him. ' ' : "Now tell me," Lubitsch asks, ."do you think it would be wise of me -to elassify such a simple title in relation to so complex a feminine character?"