Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach on Florida's east coast, a stiff wind was blowing. It rattled the palm trees with a sound like distant machine guns, piled huge stacks of cumulus clouds in front of the sun. From the sea, a salty film of spindrift swept over the cluster of snug beach houses. In one of them last week, sitting intently by his radio, Under Secretary of State Robert Abercrombie Lovett listened to the President's undramatic announcement of a dramatic new turn in U.S. foreign policy...
Patents Pending. General Aniline & Film Corp. offered to lease over 3,500 patents for products and processes that it does not want to exploit itself. This brought to over 43,000 the number of patents (ranging from high explosives to foldable spades and hoes) which the U.S. Office of Alien Property, owner of General Aniline, has released to U.S. businessmen...
Author Louis Chavance, who developed this cruel design for drama from an actual incident, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, who directed the film, have taken shrewd advantage of rich possibilities. They have put such intelligence into their melodrama that it often gives the illusion of transcending melodrama. Their film has speed, energy and tension that are rare in French movies; their character sketches are deft, searching and resourcefully visualized. Their keyhole portrait of a community is a caricature, but a remarkably effective...
...under a cloud that is mostly hot air. The picture was made with German financing during the occupation. Rumor said that it was so ruthless an exposure of French decadence that it was shown in Germany, as anti-French propaganda, under the title A Small French City. Actually, the film is neither more nor less anti-nationalist than the work of any intelligent, morally responsible artist, in time of peace or war. Propaganda or not, the picture was not shown in wartime Germany; indeed it was banned there (Germans, after all, might observe that no such healthy self-criticism...
Farrebique. A year on a French farm becomes fine epic and lyric film poetry (TIME, March...