Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mack Sennett, pie-tossing old (64) master of slapstick now enjoying a revival (three studios are said to have considered making a film about his life), mourned that "comedy is becoming a lost art." He recommended a return to first principles: "We kicked hell out of mothers-in-law, but we never touched mothers...
...devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...
Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...
...seems that the one fault of this film is in being so far above Hollywood's normal output that it confuses most audiences. I guess Director Huston's one neglected point was that of having explanatory pamphlets issued for lobby distribution...
...Live in Peace. A fine Italian-made film (TIME...