Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Vanishes," but the plot of "Rebecca" is not as ideally suited to his talent for sustained mystery. Too much coincidence detracts from the force of the plot, especially when the youthful heroine barely escapes being hypnotized into suicide by Rebecca's devoted housekeeper. Within thirty seconds of film time, the audience finds itself in the middle of the next day having discovered the clue which plunges them into the denouement and gives promise of a happy ending. From now on the suspense slackens; you'll leave the theatre with haunting memories of Joan Fontaine and the spectacular photography, rather...
Died. John Monk Saunders, 42, Hollywood screen writer (Wings, The Dawn Patrol, The Last Flight), divorced husband of Cinemactress Fay Wray; by his own hand (hanging) while in ill health; in Fort Myers, Fla. His last film story, bought by Paramount, was based on news reports of a French "suicide corps" formed by hopelessly...
Mickey Rooney. In 1937 MGM bought a play by Aurania Rouverol, called Skidding. It was a mild little piece about a small town U. S. family, named Hardy, whose ups and downs were intended to rouse no deeper emotion in theatre-goers than a tender smile through a film of happy tears. MGM proposed to turn Skidding, with title changed to A Family Affair, into a picture on a rock-bottom budget of less than...
...boyhood does not seem enough to hold all the tortures the film Edison undergoes. If this picture has any influence on the Edison legend, the inventor of electric light will be thought of in future years as an inspired masochist...
...arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime he didn't commit. The picture ends with Garfield taking his last long walk...