Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Rogers Gleason...
...Majestic isn't a museum, which means that all pictures cannot be revived. Current attraction is "Meet John Doe," made by Warner Brothers in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brannan, Barbars Stanwyck, and James Gleason--an entertaining, if not profound, social-conscience picture that has none of the anachronisms in fashion and dialogue that bar many old pictures from the Majestic screen...
...nature." This semi-mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
...photography ranks with Henry Luce's best; its acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...
Together they spend the afternoon sightseeing, the evening strolling in a tamed glade overlooking the Hudson River. A milkman (James Gleason) gives them a lift that turns into a nightlong ride through the city; his wife (Lucile Gleason) gives them breakfast and some easygoing advice about marrying in a hurry. Almost against their will, they come to suspect, that they are in love. The suspicion becomes a desperate certainty when, still without knowing each other's last names, they get separated in a subway crush...