Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As it turns out in the film, the story involves a young widow, Vivian Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates...
Reuters Regrets. Pressed by London's overeager morning dailies, Reuters broke down and sent a bulletin that all eleven had been hanged. Most of Britain's morning press, including the mighty London Times and the Manchester Guardian, played up the news.* So did Moscow papers, which get Reuters...
But it has its very bright side too. It has some of Wilde's most glittering sayings ("Experience . . . is simply the name men give to their mistakes"; "I can resist everything except temptation"). It has some of the best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever...
Nationwide Longing. "The Chinese Government still earnestly hopes that the Chinese Communist leaders, knowing the nationwide longing for peace and reconstruction, will show some deference to the will of the Chinese people, and abandon their policy of seeking political power by force. Whatever reforms they advocate may be brought up...
The excellent opening scenes, tight-packed with sharply observed detail, are models of celluloid suspense. Police Detective Thomas Mitchell coldly interviews the victim's neighbors until he tracks down Suspect Olivia de Havilland, hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland...