Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest...
...Nurse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This picture fails in many ways to do justice to its theme-the woman's side of the War-yet it is a courageous and fairly honest effort. The picture of mental and physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they...
Hamilton, who is a well-known lecturer, is dramatic critic and assistant editor of the "Forum" as well as drama editor of "The Brooklyn" and an assisting editor in the Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood, California. Among his writings on the theatre are "Theory of the Theatre", "Seen on the Stage", "Conversations on Contemporary Drama", and "Problems of a Playwright...
Madam Satan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is the most interesting picture of the week because it revives a tradition that was once very important to the business...
...Call of the Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A few years ago this kind of story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk...