Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting in the darkened projection room of the Ontario Censor Board last week, Provincial Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn watched a new MARCH OF TIME film release, "Canada at War." Mitch had precipitated a Dominion general election by telling Canada and the world at large that Canada's war effort as organized by the Mackenzie King Government was a fizzle...
...Broadway's two super smashes, Life With Father and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Life insists, naming no names, that it has had offers up to $300,000. The Man insists that it is not for sale, that its authors, George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, will film it themselves...
Pinocchio (Victor). Six sides of Walt Disney's words & music taken directly from the film's sound track...
There is little to be gained in singling out the salient details of the film; every feature is outstanding. The scenes are only rivalled by the acting. We have never despised a woman more than Scarlett, nor loved one more than Melanie. We thought perhaps breeding would tell, but for all his Twelve Oaks Ashley is a coward, and despite the Old South, Rhett is not. Each character is faithful to Miss Mitchell's book, and it is these characters which made the book. Although in any large production one expects the main people to be well-done...
...final "I don't give a damn" jars most but is unimportant in this connection compared to the scene where a soldier has his leg amputated without an anaesthetic, or to the scene of Scarlett's mother lying dead upon the bier in war-ruined Tara. Throughout the film the audience remains convinced that it is 1865 and the characters do breathe...