Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of different kinds of courage under sharp melodramatic stress, this is a remarkably good screen play. But the script is far surpassed by the way Huston and his cameraman Karl Freund and the players get it on to film. Huston takes such expert, type-tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...moment later they were speeding off to a gingerbread-trimmed hotel in the village. The cameraman was indignant. "How was I to know that was the King?" he stormed to a royal aide. Shrugged the aide: "What did you expect? That he'd be wearing his crown...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...
...armored-car crews stopped the shooting three hours later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...