Word: films
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night bride of a thoroughbred weakling (Henry Fonda). His uncompromising father forces an annulment, the young man goes obediently abroad to marry another (Anita Louise), unaware that he is leaving an unborn son behind him. On this star-crossed situation there follow several slow-footed years, distinguished in the film by bright directorial fillips and badly managed transitions, while the Furies mobilize for the unreasonable onslaught that is to come. Author-Director Edmund Goulding supplies what the film industry knows as a Keystone finish (and a happy...
...Juif Polonais (Franco-American Film). French Actor Harry Baur in a well-worn rococo melodrama, first produced on the Paris stage...
...entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
...City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy in a lively but sporadic film featuring a Manhattan taxi war, climaxing in one of the fastest free-for-alls yet screened...
INSIDE OUT-An Introduction to Autobiography-Sheridan House ($5). A book about autobiographies (410 of them in 23 languages), indispensable to libraries, for whom it is available in microfilm as well as book form. In microfilm, this 713-page, 5-lb. volume, is only 48 feet of 16 mm. film (the width of home cinema film) reeled into a spool the size of a typewriter ribbon, with its tin container weighs one-quarter pound. Microfilm copies of rare books are used in many libraries; this is the first new book to be issued in that form...