Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless it included a Disney film...
Bernard mortuary, full during the winter of victims of accidents, to be identified and claimed by their relatives in the spring. The remainder of the solemn, slow-moving picture was filmed in the French monastery of La Trappe, to enter which Director Alexandre needed to employ as much wire-pulling and salesman ship as he did in making Cloistered. The Trappist monks, one of the strictest of Catholic orders, speak to one another only by signs, and permitted Director Alexandre no special staging, no retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than...
...theory that music alone hath not sufficient box-office charm, the producers stuffed the picture with best-selling comedy commodities. In view of the Paris background, the film has still another distinction : the Eiffel Tower does not appear until the second reel...
...Take Romance (Columbia). Tennessee's soprano, Cinemactress Grace Moore, recently braved wisecracks by showing up in Manhattan with a big, tasty Tennessee ham in her arms (TIME, Dec. 13). Though her new film invites no such unkind wisecracks, neither does it bring home any bacon...
...confused effort to tidy up social injustice with a Lady Bountiful, a few rolls of wall paper, and the U. S. Navy. The burly boy of the streets is Jackie Cooper. A piping Skippy at 8, he is now 14, passes, with adolescent gruffness, for 16 in the film. Trying to get away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher...