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...Milan, Director Vittorio De Sica was "astounded." To Joseph Burstyn, the film's U.S. distributor, he cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form...
...America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
...Bicycle Thief (De Sica; Mayer-Burstyn), an Italian-made film by Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) arrives in the U.S. heavy with prizes and praise collected in Europe. Rene Clair has called it "the best film for 30 years." It is a fine, sentimental tragedy, filled with bitter social comment and presented in the realistic style which the modern Italian moviemakers have made their trademark...
...Quiet One (Film Documents; Mayer-Burstyn) is a shoestring documentary which ties up a big subject in a compact package. Produced as a 16-mm. film at a cost of $28,000, this gentle study of a childhood tragedy has stirred such enthusiasm among preview audiences and potential exhibitors that it has been blown up to standard 35-mm. size and will be distributed nationally...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...