Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie-going public seems to like religious films. The Bells of St. Mary's, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Going My Way have met with a popular box-office reception. A soundly constructed religious film can compete with the trivial film, and, can perform a definite service and teach a moral...
During the last week of April, actual shipment of relief supplies abroad had once again fallen miserably behind. The box score...
Even at that hour, feed-box tips are in (he air. This week those tips had more than the usual ring of authority. Nobody had to look far to find the favorites in this week's 72nd Kentucky Derby.* They were two-Lord Boswell and Knockdown -and both belong to fluttery Cosmeti-queen Elizabeth Arden Graham, whose Maine Chance Farm Stable has the winningest ways in U.S. turfdom. Early this week, they were prohibitive favorites...
...picture is directed by Tay Garnett, one of Hollywood's surest and most honest handlers of melodrama (Bataan, The Cross of Lorraine). Its chief players, Garfield and Turner, are box-office naturals. The forlornly prosperous roadside menage is an excellent set and there is, throughout, an unusual feeling for mannerism, place and atmosphere. The supporting work of Hume Cronyn and Leon Ames as lawyers is so good it. knocks a hole right through the picture...
This might have been the Cain to end Cains-and is more likely to do that in quite a different way. But not at the box office. There, considering the stars and the shock value, it ought to gross its weight in uranium...