Word: boomerangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Live in Peace, ranked high on most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...
...Boomerang! (American). A first-rate piece of journalistic, "locale" (Stamford, Conn.) moviemaking (TIME, March...
Hollywood's most encouraging tendency was to move out of the studios to actual locales (notably in The Fugitive, Boomerang.', Kiss of Death, 13 Rue Madeleine), and to start handling at least reasonably live social issues (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...