Warner Baxter In "Kidnapped"
VAUUDCOUEAUADAUURUOUDDARTRERESOLOSULAD OE SOEOEORCUDOROSUEDEDORGRRCTRCEOSaeheREEEEt ote NE of the most extraordinary pieces of casting ever achieved in Hollywood seems to be the decision of 20th Century-Fox to let Warner Baxter play the leading role of Alan Breck in a film of R. L. Stevenson’s ‘’Kidnapped."’ Freddie Bartholomew is to portray Breck’s little friend, David Balfour. If he can forget to be such a little gentleman, Freddie may make a big success of his part. So, of course, may Warner Baxter of his -but the odds appear to be against it. Baxter has hardly the voice for a Scotsman nor the figure for kilts. Stevenson’s story is also to be "improved" by the addition of a romantic sequence for which purpose a newcomer named Arleen Whelan has been signed up. The "British Film Weekly" is pessimistic about ‘’’Kidnapped." Says the editor: ‘If I read the signs right, they might just as well turn Robert Louis Stevenson's story into a Western and have done with it.’
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Radio Record, 1 April 1938, Page 29
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166Warner Baxter In "Kidnapped" Radio Record, 1 April 1938, Page 29
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