Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...Wyoming," is a Western, fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...
Professor Farquharson hurried back ashore for more film, made his way out on the stricken bridge again as Brown and Coatsworth crawled-stopping when their breath gave out-toward the Tacoma end. From the logging truck a man and woman scrambled and clawed their way to safety. Professor Farquharson discovered Reporter Coatsworth's dog in the automobile, tried to save it, found it sick and frightened, got nipped on the knuckle. Still convinced the bridge would fight it out, he got back toward shore. He watched while it buckled up at an angle of 45 degrees. Vertical steel cables...
...worst early fall for drama in Broadway's memory continued last week with the opening of two bad plays, Beverly Hills and Quiet Please. They were both about Hollywood. They might as well have been about Brooklyn or Burma. Their chief concern was not with the film colony's peculiarities, but with the world enterprise, adultery. It proved not very amusing...
...boom looks very much like the South Sea Bubble of L' Affaire Sheridan. The real substance of the picture is Brian Aherne, who, adorned with a paunch and soup-strainer, puts on a fine characterization not in line with his usual dashing roles. But still and all, the film is B minus stuff...