Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading the rosary coast-to-coast, vice presidents by the score yawned in his face. Last February, Mutual promised to let him do a weekly dramatic show, with nonsectarian opening and closing plugs for prayer. There was one catch: Father Peyton would have to rope in at least one film star a week...
...form they have had to combat what T. S. Eliot calls a "most perfect conspiracy of approval." In the general willingness to grant Jonson all manner of dull virtues, it has been generally overlooked that (in Volpone especially) he abounds in the lively vice of showmanship. This film exaggerates that vice. The result is magnificent mummery, set and played with tremendous style...
Shoeshine. A fine and moving film about two boys in postwar Italy (TIME, Sept...
...Decency recently demanded that he change the title and almost everything else about Forever Amber, Cinemogul Skouras took a strategic fit of Achillean sulks, and changed nothing. The old publicity campaigner guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance as nothing in the juiceless film itself could...
...additions, Skouras asserted blandly, will not impair the film's "dramatic power and beauty...