Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farrebique. A year on a French farm translated into film poetry (TIME, March...
...still to be found. Screen Plays wrote off about half of it in deferred salaries and studio overhead charges, sold a 50% interest in the picture to raise the rest (including $150,000 to be put up as additional security for the bank). United Artists agreed to release the film and everything looked fine...
There Goes the Bankroll. But in July, the backers backed out. David Loew, bigwig in Enterprise Productions, agreed to put up some money on stiff conditions: 50% of the profits to Enterprise, whose label must appear on the film. Reluctantly Kramer and Glass agreed. A shooting date...
...London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
...critics gasped, too. "This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester Guardian came utter damnation: "Thoroughly un-British...