Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fingold remembered when he saw police movies of undercover gambling activities. "The most disgusting part of the film were the pictures of those sworn to uphold the law, not bowing but genuflecting to these racketeers...
...companies, which had known for weeks that the suit was brewing, had blanket denials (one in the form of a television film) ready for immediate release. Their most telling point: a federal grand jury had investigated their records without returning an indictment...
...American film plots are pervaded by false appearances ... It is in false appearances that the forbidden wishes are realized ... In a false appearance the heroine is promiscuous, the hero is a murderer, the young couple carry on an illicit affair . . . This device makes it possible for us to eat our cake and have it, since we can enjoy the suggested wish-fulfillments without emphatic guilt . . . American films [contend] that we should not feel guilty for mere wishes...
...turmoil by staring raptly off into space. Good & evil are contrasted when the two of them come upon a rabbit in a trap: Elizabeth weeps and Robert can't understand why. "It's only a rabbit," he says. Despite expert photography and the best of intentions, the film Conspirator, pale shadow of a good novel, never comes to grips with its subject, ends as neither fish, fowl nor good Red herring...
...Lift. Romance, propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...