Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dangerous Journey (20th Century-Fox) is a travel picture made by Armand and Leila Roosevelt Denis, producers of the magnificent Dark Rapture (1938). Among its glimpses of the Belgian Congo, the Ganges, Ceylon and Burma there are only a few shots which, in the words of Baedeker, need detain the tourist. But these few make the picture worth seeing. Best...
...mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except for his distaste for Naziism; so are his friends in the underground. With the loss of this political energy the film not only loses its truth...
Independent producers, however high-minded or mercenary their motives, seldom manage much of a splash, whether cerebral or boxoffice. International, founded by 20th Century-Fox's longtime general efficiency expert, William Goetz, and veteran cinelawyer Leo Spitz, onetime president of R.K.O. is an exception. Its first picture is the most propitious independent debut since David O. Selznick...
...wrote Bedtime Story for Maurice Chevalier and Mama Loves Papa in collaboration with Arthur Kober; for 20th Century he wrote The House of Rothschild and Moulin Rouge, both highly successful pictures. By 1935, when Fox merged with 20th Century, Johnson was already regarded as a fairly important asset. By the time he decided to go independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered...
Greenwich Village (20th Century-Fox) provides a hackneyed but handsome vehicle for a number of Hollywood virtuosos, notably Brazilian Dancer Carmen Miranda and the plug-ugly king of illiterary men, William Bendix. Resplendently decked out in Technicolor, the film is a gaudy, expensive improvisation on the oft-told story about a cafe singer (newcomer Vivian Elaine) who yearns to be a musicomedy queen, and a struggling composer (Don Ameche) who wants to have his concerto played at Carnegie Hall...