Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusade in Europe (MARCH OF TIME), a film history of the Second World War in the West, based on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's bestselling book (TIME, Nov. 22), is the most ambitious film yet made for television. Sponsored by TIME & LIFE, it will begin this week over the ABC-TV network, will be seen over stations in 32 cities. Crusade will be released in 26 weekly episodes of 20 minutes each; the whole series may then be repeated twice...
...film is a skillful editing job of footage shot chiefly by military photographers, both Allied and Axis. In selecting the material, MOT film editors looked at some 65 million feet of war film. About 80% of the pictures have been restricted, and never shown to the public. The amount of good footage available to illustrate each military operation has necessarily determined the shape of the film; in turn, the film has often gained in comprehensibility by giving shape to the shapelessness of war. The words of the book, where possible, have been used as commentary to the pictures...
Someone who has seen "Sitting Pretty" may not care for Clifton Webb's new film--for "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" suffers by comparison. If it had come before "Sitting Pretty," it might have had a better chance. Nevertheless, taken by itself "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" offers many a chuckle for admirers of that dapper, self-confessed genius Lynn Belvedere...
...Were Strangers (Horizon; Columbia) is the latest film by John Huston, maker of the 1948 prizewinner, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, As movie melodramas go, it is above average, but it is not Grade A Huston. Purporting to be a courageous film about Cuba's 1933 revolution, Strangers is, unfortunately, no stranger to some old, slick Hollywood tricks...
...Fallen Idol. A British-made suspense film directed by Carol Reed, with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...