Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's dingy West Side Court, busiest in the city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
...literature and drama is strikingly brought out in that much discussed picture "M" which has at last reached Boston and the Fine Arts Theatre. It is inconceivable that such a piece of work could have been done by a Frenchman or an Italian; only a German could produce a film which does not have one single light touch to relieve its grimness from beginning to end. Despite this pre-occupation with the ultra-Micawber "A" is a picture arresting and unusual 'a its theme, splendidly photographed, and with acting that is always distinguished and even approaches genius...
...House of Connelly Director Henry King has put some taste, more thought and much work. With four cameramen, an art director, an architect and Scenarist Reginald Berkeley, he spent six weeks in North and South Carolina last summer collecting local color. Out of 40,000 feet of film shot on this hunt for atmosphere less than 500 got into the finished work. Tobacco markets near Millin, S. C., cigaret factories at Winston-Salem...
...most comprehensive good thing of this film is that it is a British Gaumont production, of their better and livelier sort. This results in careful but not clever photography, authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity...
...winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...