Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filmed in a forlorn, postwar Vienna, The Third Man is crammed with cinematic plums that would do the early Hitchcock proud-ingenious twists and turns of plot, subtle detail, full-bodied bit characters, atmospheric backgrounds that become an intrinsic part of the story, a deft commingling of the sinister with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which...
...lover's major reward is in Michelangelo's feelingly photographed sculptures. They are superbly lighted to bring out all their dimensions. The camera caresses them in detail from perspectives that the unaided eye could never reach; yet details never obscure the whole conception of each work. These scenes build up an exalting impression of Michelangelo's prolific greatness and the abundant beauty he willed to the world...
...surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...
...Attorney General brushed aside Cirrotta's letter by saying, "All the facts... were presented in full detail to the court, and the recommendations of the court were based thereon...
Sincere Encyclopedia. Working largely from diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which...