Word: films
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood blandly announced plans to film a biography of Sigmund Freud...
Greta Garbo, determined to be alone, fled from Rome to Ostia for a few days rest before starting work in Paris on her first film in eight years (Balzac's Duchesse de Langeais). When a cameraman caught her strolling the black sands without the protection of her usual droopy hat, she took to cover anyway...
...This B film, more or less successfully masquerading as an A-with-a-Cause, has certain virtues: though four-fifths of the footage consist of phosphorescent Christmas card night scenes produced through a new use of infrared film, the rest of it-a porridge-colored dawn landing of the immigrants and the bright dusty midday scenes around a desert village-is visually exciting...
...hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...
...Bros. lot. Carson and Dennis Morgan, exuding arch embarrassment, play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...