Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power scored a hit as a dashing Caribbean pirate in "The Black Swan," so he has again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power...
Call Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...Were Meant for Me (20th Century-Fox). The life & works of jazz musicians offer material for a fine movie. Some day the moviemakers may take intelligent advantage of the fact. But You Were Meant for Me isn't even as good as it was six years ago, when Fox made a similar picture called Orchestra Wives...
20th Century-Fox also had a good seat on the bandwagon. Last week, Fox's Spyros Skouras announced that, beginning Feb. 16, Movietone News would supply NBC with five television newsreels a week...
...Ideal Husband (London Film; 20th Century-Fox) is not one of Oscar Wilde's best plays, but it has enough edge and style to make the run of plays look oafish. Alexander Korda's screen production of it is short of ideal, but it is distinctly something to see and hear...