Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more evenings now of cinema in his living room, no more comedies, no more mystery films, no more grandiose biographies. Now the only movies are Wochenschauen-weekly newsreels-and the terrifying records of campaigns...
Beetle-browed Laborite Josiah Wedgwood, direct descendant of the famed potter, politely observed that Sunday theaters were unnecessary since soldiers and their girls "would infinitely prefer the dusk and sentiment of the cinema, where they could hold each other's hands...
After seven months of all-out war, Britons last week were still ready to pay their shillings to see some more-on the screen. With the lengthening days of spring, the British cinema industry made plans to occupy all available studio space (now sufficient to handle nine productions at once). On the docket were films on the R.A.F., the perils of the convoys, the Fleet Air Arm, the African campaign, and, of course, the life of Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
...popularity of such sustained mayhem has been thoroughly tested: this is the sixth cinema version of the Jack London novel in 30 years. To man the unpleasant cast (only woman is Ida Lupino), the ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and Gene Lockhart. Guided by the extravagant hand of Director Michael Curtiz, The Sea Wolf's latest treatment stresses the psychological quirks of Wolf Larsen (Robinson), skipper of the scavenger ship Ghost, a sadistic tyrant who likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems...
When it sticks to flying, I Wanted Wings offers educational and tingling entertainment along with some of the cinema's best aviation photography. Elsewhere, Paramount's picture of life in the air force resembles a mixture of West Point and Minsky...