Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dallas, a theater chain called off its plans to show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...Boultings have succeeded in persuading London itself to act out the crisis as if it were really happening. Their film uses striking documentary detail, a wealth of British character bits; it uses no twists or gimmicks to spoil a logical, harrowing account of how the metropolis tries to head off its doom and at the same time prepares to meet...
Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell) is a sternly workmanlike type with no quaint traits. The most likable character is a bighearted, middle-aged floozy (Olive Sloane) who shelters the professor. But the real heroine of Seven Days is London, with its streets, landmarks and citizens. The city gives a terrifyingly good performance...
Orpheus is Jean Cocetau's latest revolutionary addition to the cinema. This highly original and highly praised film is at the 55th Street Playhouse off Seventh Avenue. Cocetau's first grand coup, Beauty and the Beast runs through Thursday at the Irving Place (near 14th Street) along with "Ivan the Terrible" and and through tonight at the Thalia (95th and Broadway) along with the superb Italian film, Shoe Shine...
...trial scenes, the summations of the prosecutor and defense are punctuated by a series of concise flashbacks which show the various witnesses testifying. Step by step, they lead to the inevitable but still surprising verdict which is delivered at the close of the film...