Rhodes (Gaumont-British) is the latest in the current series of cinema biographies. Its subject is the great English nationalist, Cecil Rhodes, famed as unifier of South Africa, better known in the U. S. as founder of the Rhodes Scholarships. Though it is solely with the former that this British picture deals, the U. S. need feel no slight, for Walter Huston was taken to England to play the lead in an otherwise all-foreign cast.
Already a diamond tycoon at 20, Cecil Rhodes is given "six months to live" by a Dr. Jameson...
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