Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Louis Chavance, who developed this cruel design for drama from an actual incident, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, who directed the film, have taken shrewd advantage of rich possibilities. They have put such intelligence into their melodrama that it often gives the illusion of transcending melodrama. Their film has speed, energy and tension that are rare in French movies; their character sketches are deft, searching and resourcefully visualized. Their keyhole portrait of a community is a caricature, but a remarkably effective...
Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...
...Author Irwin Shaw has especially revised the play for the College production, which will run for seven performances, including Thursday and Saturday matinees, starting April...
...Author. On the Marble Cliffs was published while Author Juenger was serving as a lieutenant in the German Army (his son was killed in the war). Juenger seems to have been involved in the conservatives' plot against Hitler in June 1944. He now lives on a farm near Hannover, and preaches a United States of Europe. His latest book, The Peace, has not yet been published in Germany, though it circulates in typed copies, because the Allied Military Government has blacklisted him as one of the philosophical forerunners of Naziism...
...political activities of Henry Wallace frighten the Democratic bosses, delight the Republicans, and frequently puzzle both. To Author Dwight Macdonald they are the natural antics of a split persornality who has gained a confused following by making a cult of confusion. Macdonald's subtitle is The Man and the Myth, and of the two he finds the myth more interesting and more important...