Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich man's son (Robert Young) whom they intend to swindle. When the young couple marry they are disinherited, undergo progressive misfortunes until they end up in a Pennsylvania barn. The crooks pull a robbery for which Young goes to jail. Not until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while the hard-boiled member of the gang (Bruce Cabot) meltingly gives up the stolen bonds...
...years ago a French cinema director named Robert Alexandre went to Vatican City, had the first of some 50 interviews with high Roman Catholic churchmen. For his company, Pathé Cinema de France, Director Alexandre wished to film the first motion picture ever made inside a Catholic convent. After protracted negotiations, permission was secured from His Holiness Pope Pius XI. With a crew of 15 men, Alexandre set up cameras in the mother house of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at Angers. Never posing or attempting to direct its 1,000 inmates, he took...
Britain's Will H. Hays is a distinguished old peer named William George Tyrrell. Like his U. S. counterpart, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, onetime British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...
...feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind of censor ship, London editors found themselves in agreement with Viscount Cecil. "This time the film censorship has really passed all bounds," cried the Daily Herald. "Such dictatorship possesses a quality which can only be described as impertinence." "The cuts...
...Times listed the Censor's changes, passed solemn judgment: "Most impartial critics will agree the Censor has improved the film...