Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dreams That Money Can Buy" is a very unusual film and a successful motion-picture experiment on a relatively "home-made" basis. Perhaps other artists of this caliber will now turn towards the cinema and exploit some of its possibilities after witnessing this independent achievement. Mr. Richter's "Dreams That Money Can Buy" should delight anyone with even a smattering of Household Freud...
...Harvard Liberal Union opens its film series tonight with the presentation of the J. Arthur Rank production "Great Expectations." Two showings of the picture will be held in the Fogg Art Museum...
...group will open its first movie, "A Touch of the Times," later this year under the new name. It has already edited 2,600 feet of the film, and has just 100 feet left...
This sop to the matinee trade undercuts some of the strongest human values in the film. The G.I. has a legitimate gripe: his allotment will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...
Except for pretty, red-haired Moira Shearer, the film is not very fortunate in its performers. Miss Shearer, a ballet dancer appearing in her first movie, is an attractive actress who looks wonderful in tights. The dancing, featuring Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann as both choreographers and performers, is proficient. But, during the longest ballet sequence, the badly inflamed Technicolor will not make the picture any more exciting to balletomanes. People who don't much care for the ballet to begin with may conclude from The Red Shoes that ballet folk are a more tiresome lot of exhibitionists offstage...