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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
...Young and the Damned (Oscar Dancigers; Mayer-Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...
Havoc & Confession. Thereafter, Beverley met everyone, from Gertrude Stein (like "seeing Gibraltar at dawn") to Queen Elizabeth (he played her a Chopin étude when she was Duchess of York). But the person who turned his glamorous life upside down was Journalist Dorothy Woodman (wife of New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin), who convinced him in the twinkling of an eye that war was just "a racket." Beverley had found the "cause" he needed to balance his "idiotic life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...