Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 14, 1935

Wings Over Ethiopia (Paramount). Last year a Swiss cameraman, E. Berna, and a Swiss director, L. Wechsler, flew into Ethiopia to make a picture which they hoped to sell, partly as a travelog and partly as exploitation for a newly formed Swiss-African airline. They had little luck in either direction until Mussolini went to war and they found themselves owning a feature worth, perhaps, a million dollars.

Wings Over Ethiopia proves that a grasp of that wild land is not complete even when one knows that the army marches barefoot and the Emperor wears...

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