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Signs of the times, and proof that things have changed since Frank Capra visited Novelist James Hilton's Oriental paradise in 1937. Pollution has socked in Burbank, where Producer Ross Hunter (Airport) built the monastery by redecorating a castle set that had been swallowing up space on the Warner Brothers back lot ever since Camelot. One sometimes wonders how the actors get through their Burt Bacharach-Hal David tunes-the contemporary equivalent, presumably, of the music of the spheres-without the aid of bottled oxygen...
...Strada--the progression towards Christian Charity of a cruxle weightlifter through his involvement with a mute waif and a wise clown. It is me peccably acted by the three stars Anthony Quinn. Giulietta Massina and Richard Basehart. The times are 5.35 and 9.35. Fellini is unfortunately paired with Frank Capra's predicable filming of a cornball play Arsenic and Old Lace screened at 7:30 with weekend matinee...
...made of plaster; in Hollywood, serenity is a realm that lies only beyond the fourth martini or the third joint. Otherwise, Hunter's Shangri-La-the set for a new musical version of Hilton's novel-has it all over the novel, as well as Frank Capra's 1937 black-and-white Ronald Colman tearjerker...
...Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "The Great Dictator," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Cover Girl," "Pride of the Marines," and the Bogart classic "Casablances." Flim clips are followed by interviews with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Mitchum. The political pressures of the era are discussed by directors John Huston and Frank Capra: and writers Dalton Trumbo and Albert Maltz who were both black-listed at the time. 7:30, May 20. Chan...
...Smith Goes to Washington, James Stewart in Frank Capra's film about an idealistic young Senator. 8, Feb. 27. Chan...