Word: kazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...series of historical tapestries, "Ivan The Terrible" nevertheless remains impressive entertainment. If the episodic nature of the narrative is admitted, each individual sequence has independent unity of pace. The coronation of young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...