Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realistic backgrounds and some almost surrealistic horror highlight the photography which is the cardinal virtue of this Claudette Colbert whodunit. It is this superior camera work which gives that cerie mise en scene all important to a psychological mystery...
...good people are too simply good and guileless (in real life, the very poor are often very shrewd); the bad people are too simply bad. The camera work, highly accomplished of its romantic kind, drips with purple adjectives; it is profusely overappreciative of images that are beautiful enough to be merely looked at, without urging or comment...
...Lift your skirt just a little higher there, queenie" is the most used query of CRIMSON photographers. The reply is almost always in the affirmative. It seems that the combination of camera and press card melts females at sight and has ever been known to disarm a dean...
...LIFE photographer took a picture on a Sofia street, he was arrested-and then released with an embarrassed apology from the Foreign Office. On a side trip to the Pernik coal mines, the Bulgarian general in charge succumbed to habit; he wagged a forbidding finger when the first American camera appeared...
...Dastardly Crime at Midnight is made to order for the Mason treatment and after a slow start in a well-lit classroom, murder captures the sound-track. A doctor (Mason) tells his criminology class of a case of revenge, the camera reveals in flashbacks that Mason is his own subject, and that his lecture only anticipates his later actions. The original scheme, however, breaks down in practice and Mason's outlook gets blacker and blacker as complications arise between the killing and the burying. He does what he can to lose the body, but finally fails when he is persuaded...