Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...London went from 50-50 to 40-60 that Italy would soon openly declare for Germany, the greatest annoyance to Little Caesar remained the fact that he was still not at all sure about the trigger value of his own mob. Italians who cheered scenes in a war film showing the Allies to advantage had to be slapped and kicked in the pants by Fascist militiamen. The Roman Stock Exchange took a sickening 50-point dip at signs of Nazi-Fascist military cooperation...
Last month Producers Friedrich and Buell put their picture-smart heads together. Buell organized Dixie National Pictures Inc., started organizing the Dixie National Film Exchange, Inc. to peddle films to 400 U. S. Negro movie houses. Biggest investor in Dixie Pictures was the Rev. Mr. Friedrich...
...film includes pictures of fishing in the Gulf Stream, close-up views of a school of dolphin, and shots of a squall off the Cuban coast, Habana Harbor, a race with a Cuban schooner, and a gale off Cape Hatteras. It is designed to give some conception of life aboard a small sailing ship during an extended voyage...
Back in the U. S. Director Kline, fed up with warring Europe, never wanted to see it again. While they projected a film about Mexican Indians, for which John Steinbeck will do the script, Kline and Hackensmid cut and edited Lights Out in Europe...
...England novel is about to find out in some 87 minutes. It is about the property lust and slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does it pretty well...