Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...still has no defensive radar screen, no adequate protection against new-type Russian submarines...
...picture thoroughly deglamorizes Claudette Colbert in the leading role, and takes pains to recreate authentic Japanese prison compounds against jungle backgrounds filmed in Borneo. It shows considerable restraint in its treatment of Japanese soldiers; there is even a sympathetic Japanese colonel feelingly played by the silent screen's Sessue Hayakawa...
...Screen Director's Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). It's in the Bag, starring Fred Allen...
...clubs, legislators and local censors in more than a dozen states joined in demands that the picture be banned. At least one movie exhibitors' association urged its members not to book the film. Movie bigwigs ordered a sequence of Actress Bergman in Joan of Arc snipped from a screen anthology of famous historical scenes...
...film. Cinderella's wisked stepmother is an example. I doubt that a live actress could have made as odious as impression as the animated woman. The stepmother's facial expressions, particularly the piercing eyes, seemed to scare the whole audience; many actually huddled together when she appeared on the screen. A close second for sheer hateability is the stepmother's leering, sharp clawed cat. This formidable Tabby does everything in his power to hurt poor Cindy and her mouse friends. It was with great pleasure that I watched him meet his awful demise near...