Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying nursing. In her home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William...
...from internal evidence in Thieves' Highway, that the Johnston Office is letting down the bars on what is and is not censorable. In this movie a prostitute (Valentina Cortesa) wins the hero from the-girl-back-home with whom he had been violently in love only two days earlier. Besides this reversal of Hollywood tradition, there is an excessively steamy love scene between Cortesa and Conte after an excessively cute game of ticktacktoe on his left pectoral...
Savage Splendor (RKO Radio) is a magnificent Technicolored record of an African safari, filmed by Armand Denis (who eleven years ago produced Dark Rapture) and Lewis Cotlow. To make it, the Denis-Cotlow expedition traveled some 22,000 miles back & forth across
...notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles off to Housemaid Kate. "I seen the hair...
...punctuation that are usually more irritating than useful) is to catch his variegated Britons in a situation (blindness, old age, a dense fog) from which they cannot escape-"imprisoned in a rudimentary part of life," says Critic Henry Reed. Thus, Green's characteristically terse titles-Blindness, Living, Caught, Back, Party Going, Concluding-are like simple signposts indicating the general direction in which he intends to explore...