Word: caine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Dixon's The Clansman was filmed as Birth of a Nation; Sir James Barrie's Admirable Crichton became a movie called Male and Female (1919); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was retitled Love (1927); James M. Cain's Baby in the Icebox was filmed as She Made...
...neighborhood theatre all mention of pornographia and nymphomania--the specific subjects of the original--has been trapped in the meshes of the Production Code. What is left of the Chandler touch is the dialogue and the general aura of pointless brutality which has distinguished other films of the Cain-Chandler genre...
Last July James M. Cain, specialist in fast-moving novels like "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," took time out from sex and murder and harnessed his vigorous style to a proposal for an American Authors' Authority. Published in the Screen Writer, monthly mouthpiece of the Screen Writers' Guild, the proposal has been the cause of red scares and herrings galore. A glance at Cain's opposition, which includes Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, and a newly formed group of writers headed by the oldest of the old guard, John Erskine and Louis Bromfield, indicates a weak base...
...Cain, who is a registered Democrat and who organized Democrats in 1944 to vote for Dowey, has actually proposed a completely capitalistic set-up. The Authors' Authority is not designed to control writing in America, nor is it even meant to engineer strikes and financial negotiations. The business of getting better pay and working conditions for the writer will remain in the hands of the various guilds which function now. The Authority is interested solely in the protection of authors' rights and property...
...Authority would also maintain a lobby in Washington. The first and most important job of the lobby would be to get outmoded copyright laws modernized. It would also attempt to keep outrages such as the New York court ruling from botching up the writers' works. Cain's ebullience overboiled when he thought of financing these functions by levies on publishers and theatrical and movie producers, and of eventually taxing them enough to provide a minimum yearly salary for writers. But the Screen Writers' Guild, an organization whose "communist leadership" is mythical, recently decided to rewrite the proposal "in better form...