Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clever; direction and photography are first-rate. With the greatest of ease, the story swings back & forth between a pearly-monotone heaven and a dazzling, Technicolored earth. But it bites off too big a hunk and insists on chewing it all. In a clumsy flirtation with the U.S. box office, its makers threw in some boring heavenly discourses on Anglo-American relations (with Canadian-born Raymond Massey as the U.S. spokesman) and some trite philosophizing on everything from the hereafter to the British Empire. These "intellectual" flourishes finally grind even the inoffensive little love story to movie mush...
...gratitude for their gilded cage by turning out pictures that will make Angel Rank a nice U.S. profit. But many far less creative people on both sides of the Atlantic are already worrying their heads full-time about what the elusive U.S. moviegoer wants. If Powell & Pressburger can leave box-office problems to someone else, they might do a special favor for themselves, for Mr. Rank, for Hollywood and for moviegoers everywhere, by just concentrating on making the best British movies they...
...Crimson pucksters took over from the start with Freedman's goal after two minutes had passed, and were never headed. When both Abbott and Fletcher of the Yardlings landed in the penalty box, the prep-school team had a chance to score-but goalie Bill Yetman and his defensemen managed to stave off all onslaughts. Abbot scored his first goal of the contest at 13:05 to make the score at the end of the first frame...
First blood was drawn for the Cantabs last night by Bill Hamlin at 3:03 on a play that broke straight down the middle with an assist from Lou Preston. From then on the battle was wide open as 12 offenders were sent to the penalty box in the course of the proceedings...
...road company away from its Broadway opening, is still a great show. Harold Rome's music and lyrics, particularly "The Red Ball Express" and "Military Life," and most emphatically "South America Take It Away," have managed to outlast the combined kiss of death of the radio and juke box, while the entire east is only a shade or two below the group which has made "Call Me Mister" the best musical in New York...