Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Years of Hollywood conditioning have long since accustomed the American public to superlatives of all sorts. Today's superlatives, however, must be reserved for a British product, one for which the known American descriptive vocabulary can scarcely suffice. Following close on the heels of the unforgettable "Henry V", J. Arthur Rank's "Stairway to Heaven" poses an equally compelling, if less monumental, challenge to Hollywood's celluloid supremacy...
...least of the picture's merits is its innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...
Cost of construction is Charlie Skouras' secret (Hollywood guessed about $500,000). But Skouras estimated that the cost was less than a standard-built movie house of the same seating capacity and that his prefabricated theater on a production basis would cost only about $200,000. When materials become available, Skouras plans to build and ship prefabricated theaters to buyers any place in the world...
...Locket (RKO Radio) is a dull blend of two of Hollywood's hardest-worn current themes: psychiatry and vicious womanhood. Laraine Day is a sweet-faced wanton who lies, cheats, steals and murders her way through the ruination of three remarkably gullible leading men (Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond...
Blaming adult misdeeds on childhood frustrations is a widely popular excuse among amateur Freudians. Nonetheless, church & state still hold a grown person responsible for his own sinful and antisocial acts. Hollywood is cutting figure-eights on dangerously thin moral ice by suggesting to its huge mass audience that an unhappy childhood not only explains but somehow excuses a lady's indulgence in bitchery and murder...