Word: bloode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Fred Niblo, 74, pioneer movie director (Ben Hur, Blood and Sand) and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
...Blood on the Moon (RKO Radio) is a cow opera in which even the cattle behave convincingly. When they stampede, they look less like a spectacle than just a big nuisance. The bad men (Robert Preston, et al.) are also believable. Before Cowpoke Robert Mitchum gets mixed up in plot, he has a friendly shooting match with the rancher's daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes). She snipes at him as he tries to ford a stream. He retaliates by shooting the heel off her boot. At some point in this exchange of lead, love blossoms...
...Blood on the Moon contains some of the oldest trappings in horse opera, but the performances make the difference. The heroine looks as if she might really live on a ranch, and like it; the hero has plausible motives for shooting when he shoots. They contend with the villains against handsome outdoor backgrounds...
...misprinted, sometimes illustrated with pictures that had nothing to do with the text, the penny-dreadfuls had many of the virtues of naked imagination, all the vices of standardized hack work. Their authors, paid by the line (less than a penny), took care that each scream, each gush of blood, even each sentence, received a line all to itself-and thereby laid the foundation of the clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness. The young J. M. Barrie struggled...
Contemporary man, awed by the beady eye of the child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...