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...legs or any other stock Hollywood commodity. He is the one man out there who can write, direct, and show his charges how to act out a movie. His latest and best personal triumph is "The Lady Eve," as insinuating a farce as has ever decked a Boston screen...
...faint suspicion we might not get the money back. He didn't know much about Chinese culture except for the few "Confucius Say's" that went around the country a couple of years ago. Every now and then they flashed some picture of Peiping being bombed on the screen at the U.T. but he always felt that he had seen the pictures somewhere before. But for that matter other places were being bombed, too, so that didn't give him much to go by. Of course he knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with...
...gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...
...truth lies far from either extreme. The "Nutcracker Suite" is strikingly beautiful, Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" is horribly realistic with the raw violence of the music matched by a dino saur death battle on the screen, and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hilariously comic--but Beethoven's "Pastoral" has become a bacchanalian nightmare and the Disney ballet which accompanies the "Dance of the Hours" is scarcely better than a Terry Toon...