Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Pond. The peacock in its prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
...best is his study of two conspirators* (see cut). By showing a dramatic closeup of the two informers, he has neatly rendered the feeling of furtiveness and secretiveness in espionage...
...happen more often? For roughly $200,000, the price of four half-hour variety shows, Impresario Sol Hurok put some of music's brightest stars into dazzling constellation. The camera let the viewer hover over the fingers of Guitarist Andres Segovia and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, linger in closeup on the intense face of Marian Anderson, share the lilt of Verdi's La Traviata with Victoria de los Angeles, stand amid the powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently than in its first...
There is a pitiless closeup of an ailing, sorrowing Woodrow Wilson, after he had lost his crusade for internationalism-and an equally telling shot of Warren Gamaliel Harding as he testily misses a short putt. The Ku Klux Klan parades in great billowing ranks down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and through a flare-lit initiation ceremony in a Georgia glade. J. P. Morgan stares inscrutably through a Wall Street window, Josephine Baker struts her stuff at the U.S.-tourist-packed Folies-Bergère, Al Capone waddles contemptuously in and out of a courthouse, Babe Ruth rounds the bases...
...short, the only important difference between the play and the picture is its cast. Paul Ford, as the colonel, is the only carryover, and in closeup he seems even more a master of the cruder kinds of deadpantomime. Glenn Ford is amiable as young Captain Fisby; Machiko Kyo, one of the most gifted of Japanese cinemac tresses, is pleasantly giggly in a part that scarcely taxes her abilities. As Sakini, Marlon Brando seems to proclaim with every gesture that his talent is too big for his coolie britches...