Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...
White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular film comeback in a hurtling drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...
...neckline plunge.* Last spring Maryland's three censors extended their sway from decolletage to dialectics: they banned a 50-minute Polish documentary, On Polish Land (with no English subtitles), because they did "not believe it presents a true picture of present-day Poland." Instead, they ruled, the film "appears to be Communist propaganda...
Against prompt charges of political censorship, the Maryland board argued: "Immorality . . . extends to the entire moral code"; therefore, a film "based upon deceit and misrepresentation" could be banned as a "moral breach." Prodded by the Baltimore Sunpapers, Governor W. Preston Lane Jr. asked his attorney general whether the censors were within their legal powers. Ruled Attorney General Hall Hammond...
...stuck when the film's distributor, George I. Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...