Word: boomeranger
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...Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...
...Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...
...Boomerang! (20th Century-Fox) is an excellent movie of its kind-and its kind is very good and rare indeed. The idea: to film a story based on, and essentially faithful to, fact; to film it in an actual town, using actual buildings as sets and actual townspeople as players...
...Boomerang! is based on a case in the early career of the former U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings. It was photographed, completely outside the studio, in the streets, houses, churches and civic buildings of Stamford, Conn. A number of ordinary citizens get effectively into the act, though most of the speaking roles are handled by skilled professionals...
...picture's naturalism is stylized, of course, and is by no means the first of its kind in films. But in Boomerang! the trick is fully and perfectly turned. Also, an important corner is turned, away from Hollywood's rather monotonous dreamland, into the illimitable possibilities of the world the eye actually sees. Around that corner, many other films may follow, to everybody's profit...