Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home of the Brave. A tight little war film that preaches against anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...
...full-dress review of the ups & downs of U.S. naval aviation. Thanks to the practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...
...magnificent climactic sequences of fighting at Midway and Okinawa, Moviemakers Wald and Daves combed through some 2½ million feet of U.S. Navy combat film. The results-in both black & white and Technicolor-are breathtaking. Some of the shots, which moviegoers will remember from wartime newsreels-of planes toppling across a flight deck like gasoline torches and of Kamikazes dissolving into smoke and matchwood 100 yards from the carrier's bridge-have the effect of recurring nightmares. Equally effective, except for the muttering background music, are the crowded shots of a carrier's communications room, the intricate, knotted...
...much? I get the best writers and directors in the business and I let them do their jobs. I just supervise and advise them." Actually, his "supervision" calls for a ten-hour day of directing his writers, writing his directors, casting his actors, cutting and editing film, reviewing musical scores, sets and costumes, compromising the clashes between the commercial mind and the artistic temperament. Most of his spare time, with his wife and two children, is uncluttered by Hollywood's social excesses or such private indulgences as drinking and smoking. He spends it in a tireless hunt for story...
Jolson Sings Again. Zestful sequel to the film biography of mammy's favorite son; with Larry Parks and Jolson's voice (TIME, Sept...