Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survive disillusioning bursts of canned applause, poorly spliced film, a faulty sound-track, paper mache countryside, and a disconcerting propensity on the part of the cast to get that gleam of timeless monument as they're about to mumble a famous passage...
...enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
Down Under Heaven. In Sydney, Australia, a newspaper columnist noted that Walk into Paradise, an Australian film about New Guinea, will be called Walk into Hell when it is distributed...
Boston got advance warning of the opening of God's Little Acre last week when Erskine Caldwell came to town to "promote" the film. As extra-added-attractions, he brought a wife and two agents...
...film was made in good taste," he said in an interview at the CRIMSON, adding that the Legion of Decency had done a little censoring which he had not yet seen. "I supervised it, watching them test the actresses. I'm not much interested in the actors...