Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle of the Night (Sudan; Columbia) transforms an honest but clumsy play by Paddy Chayefsky into a cruelly beautiful and moving film, a story of life and love as a man grows older. The man (Fredric March) is a clothing manufacturer-shrewd, hardworking, decent. At 56, still "a vigorous man with normal appetites," still fairly attractive to women, he finds himself a widower. What to do with the rest of his life? At first he simply works, works, works. After a while he starts spending time at his married daughter's house, playing with the baby. Then...
Since some 70% of the country's 55,000 dry cleaners have switched to plastic bags, the industry is geared to turn out the thin, transparent film coverings, and does not want to switch back to paper. What worries many of the 35 producers of plastic bags is that laws will be passed banning the use of the bags. New York City now requires that warning labels be placed on plastic bags, and other restrictive legislation is pending in various states...
Married. Brigitte Bardot, 24; and Jacques Charrier, 23, leading man in Brigitte's latest film (Babette Goes to War); she for the second time, he for the first; in Louveciennes, France...
...Roof (Italian). The housing shortage may sound like a trivial subject, but in Rome it can be heartbreaking, as this excellent neorealist film demonstrates with both humor and pathos...
Compulsion. Leopold and Loeb's "crime of the century" re-created in a tight, suspenseful film...