Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Cinema editor reported Errol Flynn a major in Objective, Burma! (TIME, Feb. 26). I'm pretty sure swashbuckling Flynn was only a captain. Unless, of course, he was promoted after...
Stunt Boy. In The Bronx, Bill Ont-ville, 1 6, who wants to be a cinema stunt man when he grows up, announced that he had seen 705 movies in the past year...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. released "The Sign of the Cross" in December, 1932, with Cecil B. DeMille as director and with one of the first four-star casts: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, and thousands of extras. Its reappearance is of interest to students of the cinema art, but by modern standards it is no longer good entertainment...
Occupation Masterpiece. Remarkably enough, the French cinema industry never really went under during the Occupation until, in May 1944, Allied bombings forced the Germans to shut off its light and power. Still more remarkably, several of the films produced during the Occupation represent a triumphant defense of national style and integrity, as U.S. cinemaddicts will probably soon have a chance to see. But it is still uncertain how soon, or in what form, the most notable of these films, Les Enfants du Paradis, will reach...
...Want to Go Back." In Hollywood, meanwhile, the great master of the prewar French cinema, Rene Clair, summed things up for himself and his fellow expatriates, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier: "I want to go back. You can make films you can't make here. People in America go to the theater to see people, not ideas...