Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...transferring this doleful drama to film, the producers have also transferred (without improving) the novel's main dilemma. Boiled down it is: how to make convincing the relationship between a father, who behaves like a doting old maid, and a son, who is a little too bad to be true...
...their desire to throw stones into it and watch the ripples. The darkness of the human mind and the dirt of existence are what they love to dwell on; and they do so to their heart's content (and the horror of the audience) in "The Human Beast," current film at the Fine Arts...
...Fight for Life (U. S. Film Service) is scored by famed Composer Louis Gruenberg to the beating of a human heart. Sometimes the heart drums frantically. Sometimes it fades, almost stops. Sometimes there is a loud overbeat, a faint underbeat. The overbeat is a woman's heart in childbirth, strained to capacity by labor. The underbeat is the heart of the child she is struggling to bear. Once, in the picture's first episode, the overbeat stops. It is like a scene of human sacrifice. The cramped body lies on its pallet. The doctors make deft, noiseless movements...
...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantelpiece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his face a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be?" came the quiet voice from...
...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...