Word: celluloids
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...final scene is a masterpiece on celluloid. The temptation to tell all the final few minutes was over-come by Dmytryk, who successfully poses a delicate question in high drama. See it. Perhaps you'll push for new mental hospitals to take care or the pervert next door. At any rate you'll shy from crowded streets for some time to come...
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...
...about what German students think and do about it. The director of what probably was the most anti-Semitic movie ever made under the Nazi regime, Veit Harlan was acquitted some years ago in a denazification court. This threw the way open to him to go back into the celluloid industry. But in spite of the legal acquittal, Germans did not think that the question was settled...
...there is also a choice of hors d'oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds seem larger...
...occasion, the Forum group wrote to a number of Hollywood producers, asking them to participate in the program, "Are Movies Better than Ever?" With the celluloid industry at a rather low ebb, one producer mistook this for a jest and furiously referred to the Forum as "a juvenile organization that has nothing better to talk about...