Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...
...active Mr. Grew, through no particular fault of his own, also had a most unhappy time. The details of his misery were buried behind the "off the record" secrecy of press conferences...
...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...
...picture has one glaring fault: it is far too fond of reproducing, by direct quotation, samples of the worst of the careful but uneven prose in which Raymond Chandler wrote the original thriller. Aside from that it handles Chandler's extremely cinemadaptable story so well that, if anything, it improves it in the retelling. It is the story of an indigent Los Angeles private detective (Dick Powell) who, for the sake of a few spare dollars, helps a gigantic imbecile named Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to hunt down the girl he loved when he went to jail...
...sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked...