Four Frightened People (1934) | |
| Director(s) | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Producer(s) | Cecil B. DeMille, Emanuel Cohen (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Comedy, Drama |
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Four Frightened People (1934) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille and Emanuel Cohen.
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FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE
By Dan Day, Jr. on May 11, 2025 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogLast month I was at Half Price Books, and I happened upon a hardcover copy of EMPIRE OF DREAMS, a biography of Cecil B. DeMille written by Scott Eyman. Reading it inspired me to pull out a DeMille DVD box set from Universal I had bought years ago, and pick out the least-known film from the set to wr... Read full article
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The DVD release chooses the 78 minute re-release version, not the 95 minute original version.
According to "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood" by Robert S. Birchard, the 96-minute version of the film was only screened once, at a test screening in Huntington Park, California, on December 15, 1933. The test audience, apparently mostly composed of kids (who were there waiting to see the war aviation movie Ace of Aces), felt that the movie was too long by ten minutes, and that further character-set up was necessary. To accommodate this DeMille added in the opening blurb that the movie was filmed on real locations and he included brief bios for each of the four frightened people. DeMille then screened the movie and deemed the test audience was correct, and cut a "thousand feet" from the film, resulting in the 17 minutes cut from the test version. So then, the 96-minute "longer" cut was never actually shown to a mass audience; the only certain thing about it was that it included sequences with Ethel Griffies, who played the mother of Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall).
Babe London, who was living in Hawaii in 1933, wrote to deMille in hopes of getting a part in the film when the crew arrived on the island.
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According to "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood" by Robert S. Birchard, the 96-minute version of the film was only screened once, at a test screening in Huntington Park, California, on December 15, 1933. The test audience, apparently mostly composed of kids (who were there waiting to see the war aviation movie Ace of Aces), felt that the movie was too long by ten minutes, and that further character-set up was necessary. To accommodate this DeMille added in the opening blurb that the movie was filmed on real locations and he included brief bios for each of the four frightened people. DeMille then screened the movie and deemed the test audience was correct, and cut a "thousand feet" from the film, resulting in the 17 minutes cut from the test version. So then, the 96-minute "longer" cut was never actually shown to a mass audience; the only certain thing about it was that it included sequences with Ethel Griffies, who played the mother of Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall).
Babe London, who was living in Hawaii in 1933, wrote to deMille in hopes of getting a part in the film when the crew arrived on the island.
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