Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Stein (Four Saints in Three Acts) had, as usual, not truckled to the conventions. Though her play dealt with life in France during the occupation, it was largely undramatic-a succession of scenes that snapped their fingers at continuity, pace and mounting impact. The dialogue was typical Stein-like something written for the hard of hearing...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (MGM) may not be the "biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
Though the success of the moving picture proves that "The song of Bernadette" contains material for effective dramatic treatment, Joan and Walter Kerr's stage adaptation has none of the impact of the screen version. "Bernadette" is not due for a long or profitable run in Boston; and a miracle as potent as that which brought forth the healing waters in the Grotto of Massabielle would be required to make it a Broadway success...
...plethora of schmaltz that dogs many similar American efforts, MGM's Swiss-imported "The Last Chance" well deserves the title of the most intelligent non-documentary film to come out of this war. There have been more complex plots, more natural dialogues, and more starting acting, but the powerful impact of "The Last Chance" makes a good many box office smashes look somewhat green around the gills...
Many shared with their colleagues of the prosecution a feeling for the trial's grave historic impact. Said Hess's lawyer Dr. Alfred Seidl: "This is as new to me as it is to [Chief U.S. Prosecutor] Jackson. We are all groping in the dark. . . . We are just going to have to go through with this if we are going to prevent a third war." Said another, more intent on the immediate objective of saving 22 Nazi lives: "If Jackson was able to make new laws, the same should hold true...