Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty minutes of fast moving, swashbuckling action. James Cagney comes through with a thoroughly convincing performance in the title role. Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming...
...Fine Arts Theatre, and no one should miss it, will realize that Art with a capital A has created this picture. Its photography is scusitive and interprets as well as records. The actors are particularly convincing in their parts and benefit from the absence of love glorified in the Hollywood manner. Most important of all, if has that rare quality of pace which makes detail a powerful ally of action...
...sister to Tracy Lord (Miss Hepburn). Lenor Lonergan proves that not all child prodigies are in Hollywood. Borrowed from the Mercury Theatre, Joseph Cotten proves that some good guys can be found among the rich. Also outstanding are Shirley Booth, as the sharp, brittle-tongued photographer and Van Heflen as the liberal, wealth-bating and Luce hating reporter...
...recording system which picks up sound on a film tape in much the same way that the sound track on a talking cinema film does it. Engineer Miller's theory is that most radio shows, concerts, interviews could and should be staged, directed, polished up and edited beforehand, Hollywood style, and then transmitted from recordings. With radio's prevalent system of disc recording, cutting and editing is almost impossible. But with Millertape a complete, timed-to-the-second radio show can be pieced together by matching approved takes just as Hollywood film editors make feature films from...
Four years later in Hollywood, dragged down by overwork, finished off by pneumonia, 56-year-old Edgar Wallace died at the height of his success. His debts: something over...