Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinema rights to The Moon Is Down (concerning an invaded village), 20th Century-Fox paid Author John Steinbeck the biggest outright story-price on record...
Saboteur (Frank Lloyd; Universal) is one hour and 45 minutes of almost simon-pure melodrama from the hand of the master: bejowled, Buddha-ball Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, etc.), whose guileless countenance and cherubic demeanor mask a talent for scaring hell out of cinema audiences...
...Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...
Hollywood was willing and eager to help. In the long pre-war days the world's biggest cinema industry piddled around making training films for the armed forces, an occasional hammy patriotic picture of its own, tried its hand at box-office propaganda and got smeared by U.S. Senate isolationists for its pains. After Pearl Harbor, Hollywood pleaded with Franklin Roosevelt's Government Films Coordinator, white-haired, volcanically patient Lowell Mellett, for an important assignment...
...Version I (Farnum v. Santschi) that Hollywood and oldtime moviegoers like to recall. It set the pattern for future film brawls, became a pressagent's superlative for the ultimate in cinema scraps. It started small, but, according to Actor Farnum (still hale and hearty enough to undertake a small role in Version IV), it grew after Villain Santschi broke his nose on the first swing. Says Farnum...