The Archive · 1935

Man of Oran

That remarkable picture, "Man of '2. brilliant episodic: Fecord of the fight between the hardy fishermen of Oran Island and the cree asperities of life on the wild coast of the North" Atlantic medal as the best picture of 1634, By a leading organization in New York it has been hailed as the best out of ten American and six British films produced during the year. With these credentials it will Bssuredly be marked down for spe-experts. Those who. saw the film cial attention "by Shanghais cin disturbing' the natural grandeur of its message by intrusion of plot or other incidental detail. The picture imparts to a highly artificial civiliza Yon the lessons of elemental contact with the "unrestrained forces of

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