Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder mysteries are all the same, and the only way to judge them is to evaluate their treatment. There is nothing in the format of a who-dunit which will make a good film or be anything other than a common-place. But the producers of Sleep My Love have taken such a common-place tale and by skillful directing, acting, and photography turned it into a neat suspenseful package...
...Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...realistic Italian films, Shoeshine and To Live in Peace, ranked high on most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...
...film may have some suspense for Latin Americans, who conceivably will have difficulty believing that censors would permit such a marriage. For U.S. moviegoers, Tycoon has Technicolor...
...corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely reset the legend in modern dress. His title, The Eternal Return, is the term Nietzsche gave to the mournfully romantic doctrine of endless historical repetition. The Nietzschean note tolls through the film like a sunken bell...