Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the movie version of William Falkner's recent novel, "Intruder in the Dust," arrived in Boston last week it brought with it some unusual praise and tributes, not the least of them being a New York Times editorial attesting to its excellence. It is an exceptional film, and an important one, but to this particular reviewer it falls considerably short of greatness...
Under the Dust. But there were difficulties. The legal right of the U.S. to move troops into Formosa was open to serious challenge. By the treaty of 1895, which followed the Sino-Japanese War, Formosa went to Japan...
...move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
...atmosphere had made it a favorite of Manhattan's lorgnette & limousine set. One longtime Plaza guest was so frightened at the thought of a breezy Westerner taking over that she dashed off a letter to Hilton which began : "Dear Sir: If you touch a speck of the sacred dust of the dear old Plaza...
Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion...