Word: film
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Carefully Scenarists Heinz Herold, Norman Burnside, John Huston combed their script, removed twelve references to syphilis. Nevertheless, for the first time the U. S. movie-going public will hear the word syphilis uttered in a legitimate Hollywood film...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
...story of the tragic love between Tsar Alexander II and Princess Dolgoruki is told tenderly and tearfully in "Katia," the new French film at the Fine Arts. A gushing romance not entirely free from 10c novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps...
...film is preceded by a short on the subject of the French Pyrences region which alone is worth the trudge over to the Divinity Avenue cinema hall. There are to be performances all day today; admission is by Bursar's card. Mrs. Edward K. Rand, through whose efforts the French films are made available without obligation to Harvard and Radcliffe, deserves the appreciative plaudits of everyone who has had the opportunity of enjoying them...
...good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture is a thoroughly delightful surprise...