Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Coxhead's eye is on business offices and small daily newspapers and weeklies that are not yet saddled with the traditional expensive printing equipment. For large newspapers-except in emergencies - VariType printing is still too slow (photoengraving alone takes an hour) and can't print headlines...
...actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...entertainment. The makers of Northside had all that it takes and then some. Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. The sound track, as cleanly intelligent as the camera work, deserves a special Oscar: except in the dives, where instrumental music is proper, practically the only music heard is the magically evocative natural music of a big city...
...story scarcely matters except as an excuse for some scare scenes, which are pretty well filmed, and some scare characters, who are amusingly played. George Coulouris uses his trapezoidal shoulders effectively. Hazel Brooks, as a prettied-up version of the Dark Lady of Cartoonist Chas. Addams' horror house, is fine in her part and fun to look...
...When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show-in a manner presumably intended as alluring-as if she were lying asleep on a vertical...