Word: cinemaddicts
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...cinemaddict who after seeing it does not know enough to go home is probably capable of being initiated into the Odd Fellows twice on the same night...
...half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy (Lee Patrick), who henpecks her bill-collector husband (Roscoe Karns...
...United Artists). To hear a movie called a "class picture" sends a chill down the hardened cinemaddict's spine. "Class picture" is a trade term for films with a better than average cast, a resolutely esthetic director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they...
...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...
...solely on how much he matters to an audience. By the time John Mason, having reached his office, tiptoes in to ask his boss for two weeks off in which to take a honeymoon, the question of whether he will get it or not will matter, to the average cinemaddict, almost as much as though the honeymoon were...