Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This tale is put on film with the high polish, the intelligence, and the mastery of tension that are to be expected of Director Alfred Hitchcock. But Robert Hichens' basic story is so intricate in plot and pattern-there are four interlocking triangles, and hints of two more-that only an inspired talent for drama and for characterization could have saved it from obvious artificiality. No such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd...
...Live in Peace. A fine Italian-made film endorsing the Brotherhood of Man (TIME...
Vittirio De Sica has directed so well that nowhere are his efforts obvious; similarly no one in the picture "acts." The realism of "Shoeshine" is as great as that of "Open City" and it even surpasses the latter film by a simplicity of theme that nowhere permits the continuity to become naveled as did the narrative of the Italian underground. De Sica has limited himself to a small canvas in painting the destruction of the two young lives but has produced a masterpiece with deeper meaning. When Pasquale brings about his young friend's death, he does not receive punishment...
Yardling movie goers will be getting a better deal for their money in future weeks, as the Union Committee announced last night a completely new policy for their Wednesday night film shows...
Better pictures, equipment, and projector-handling are the main features of the new set-up, Richard C. Sawyer '51, movie director, said. Union policy will be to secure the "best past film," and advance bookings already run up to March...