Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jolson Sings Again. Zestful sequel to the film biography of mammy's favorite son, with Larry Parks and Jolson's voice (TIME, Sept...
Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of spectacular Navy combat film and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...
...breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...
This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...
...acting in "A Touch" is limited, again, by the pantomime requirements of the silent film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person...