Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner progressed to Turkish coffee and pears, the conversation switched to the movies. "American film industry is very fine," Tito remarked, "but sometimes we find the films a little foolish." I asked him about his favorite films and he beamed: "Cowboy films and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy." I asked him if he liked Charlie Chaplin. "Modern Times," said Tito, imitating the scene where Chaplin goes berserk and runs around twitching two wrenches. "He has made several since that one," I said. "In one he imitates Hitler." "You mean The Great Dictator?" inquired Tito blandly...
Black Magic (Edward Small; United Artists) is a viscous, heady brew concocted by a Russian-born Hollywood moviemaker (Gregory Ratoff) out of a turbulent French romance (Alexandre Dumas pere's Memoirs of a Physician) about a swaggering 18th Century charlatan (the so-called Count Cagliostro). The film was made entirely in Italy at a cost of $2,000,000 (more than a billion lire). Hollywood...
True to cinemilitary tradition, the film shows how crisis and the call of duty can regenerate the most cynical heel. As the heel, Richard Widmark sinks so low that only something as drastic as a hurricane can wash his sins away. A Naval Reserve pilot, he flies a plane for dope smugglers. In his spare time he drinks intemperately, cruelly casts off his sweetheart (Veronica Lake) and makes passes at the wife (Linda Darnell) of an old Navy buddy (John Russell...
...time the hurricane comes along to give Widmark a crack at heroic redemption (and to blow some fresh air onto the screen), it is too late to redeem the film from a dead calm of dimly motivated banalities...
...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...