Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nearer (Frances Langford; Decca). Rodgers & Hart melody-of-the-month, from the film version of their Too Many Girls...
...Hear Music (Russ Morgan; Decca). Cute rendering of cutest tune from the film Dancing On a Dime...
...hard to distinguish this 19th-Century film biography from many of its undistinguished predecessors...
...Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another. But the film's talky treatment of the problems of inconstancy does much to prove that movies have to move to be Your Best Entertainment...
...since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated home-run hitter going to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. That it failed to clear the bases is as much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality of the sea. In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer bound from the West Indies to Britain with a cargo of munitions. During most...