Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer in the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TiME, April...
...cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
Movie Crazy (Harold Lloyd: Motion Picture Sales Corp.) signals the 1949 re-issue of seven Harold Lloyd films, including such belly-laughs as The Freshman, Grandma's Boy, and Safety Last. Movie Crazy (1932) is not one of Lloyd's best, but compared with most recent film comedies, it sparkles like vintage champagne...
Thanks to efficient research, Summertime has a deceptively substantial appearance. Its. authentic period sets and costumes are persuasively gay, and the whole film is redolent of early German-American Gemütlichkeit. Its only other claim to style is Judy Garland. In several spots, she manages to give the show the look and pace of a bang-up musical...
...been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...