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Word: storyless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatricals, but it is inferior as entertainment. The difference is a matter of intention. The Amkino producers were not interested in making this product salable but in expressing a dogma passionately clear and important to the patriots of new Russia. The setting in France of 1870 is adventitious. The storyless argument lacks sequence. The vivid symbolism, used at first coherently to show what happened in the rebellion that followed the German invasion, becomes disordered and tedious. Best shot: French troops stimulated to attack doomed rebels by the ironical singing of "La Marseillaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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