The Exile

The NBC Theater presents... Production, the Exile, Director Max Opels, Star Douglas Fairbank's Student. This is the Screen Director's Guild presentation of the adventurous legend, The Exile, starring Douglas Fairbank's in introducing the Director of the film, Max Opels.

The statement that art acknowledges no national boundaries is particularly true of the motion picture medium. Thus it is with a great deal of pleasure that the NBC theater welcomes tonight a director who received his film education in Germany and France.

In him is exemplified the rare combination of talents which are the starting point of the screen director's art. Among his American motion pictures are letter from an unknown woman, the soon to be released production caught, and of course tonight's story, The Exile.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Max Opel. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very pleased and flattered that tonight the Screen Director's Guild presents the exile with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the screen role of Charles II and Jeanette Waldo, SK.

For many years I have had an idea about how history should be presented in the traumatic form and the exile is that idea come to life. For me, over centuries, parts of history take on the flavour of an old ballad, singing the deeds of brave men who lived in a kind of fairy land.

But if such equality is to be placed upon the screen, it requires a special sort of actor. You must possess a certain flair, a certain something I can call only fairbank-sism. Singism is a very vital substance in movie making.

Kind of glorious energy which escapes from most of us when we lose the dreams of childhood. Well, fortunately for this idea, Douglas Fairbanks came to me one day and he said, Max, I want you to direct a picture for me.