Word: camerawork
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...made a picture in two years. Six of the new top ten were picked by their directors out of beauty contests. In their films, as a rule, they do not even have to speak; the Italian system of dubbing sound track into a film after the camerawork is done makes it possible, as one director explains, "to put the acting in later"-in somebody else's voice. Says one wag: "An actress in Italy needs only two expressions-horizontal and vertical...
Possibly the director, whose name escapes me, is responsible for this fine acting, and the equally fine music, camerawork, and script. But I am inclined to give Guinness the praise--certainly it is his character which dominates this picture. The Promoter is incontestably another "Guinness movie...
...Helen Hayes and David Niven were wasted in a soggy romance called Not a Chance, while Cinemactor John Payne had only to tighten his jaw muscles menacingly as the Government agent in The Name Is Bellingham, a routine thriller about dope smugglers. But Bellingham was noteworthy for imaginative camerawork, some nice atmosphere touches, and the repeated scene-stealing of minor Actor Guy Thomajon as a devious Chinese businessman...
...ranks of women roller skaters and women wrestlers. The Queens are a softball team decoratively turned out in shirts, shorts and knee-length stockings; their opponents bear such names as the Checashers, the Bluebirds and the Music Maids. The caliber of play is a good deal better than the camerawork and announcing...
...pick to shreds the elements of the film, the silly story, the crude camerawork, but where on the screen can you match the spirit of the whole? Where on the screen can you find such good spirits to make hearts and steins overflow...