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stage employes' and projectionists' union, and Bioff, who is his Hollywood ambassador, had chiseled $550,000 from Hollywood film companies by threatening to stir up strikes among the 35,000 union members in the industry. Named as victims of the alleged extortion: Twentieth Century-Fox, Loew's, Paramount, Warner Brothers...
Bedroom farces used to be funny because they were the exception to the rule and because they usually had some amusing dialogue, or plot, or direction, or acting. But the inevitable Hollywood stagnation has crept into even this field; and the result is that "Come Live With Me" at Loew's is slow, unfunny, badly acted, and anything but sophisticated, as it tries so hard...
...photography may be among the best in the business. But the plot seems always to be long and harrowing. That's how it was with "The Mortal Storm"; that's how it was with "Escape"; and now that's how it is with "So Ends Our Night" at Loew's. The cast includes some extremely sincere and convincing portrayals. Frederic March as the indomitable Steiner does some of the best acting in his career. Margaret Sullivan, the perennial refugee, is her usually beautifully serious self. Eric Von Stroheim succeeds in making himself as repulsive as a good Nazi should...
...made producers hold their breath with suspense. Most expert piece of propaganda that has come from Hollywood so far, it may be the end of one anti-Nazi cycle or the beginning of another. So Ends Our Night is the work of an upstart team of independent producers: David Loew, onetime vice president of Loew's Inc., the theatre chain his father Marcus Loew founded, and Harvardman Albert Lewin, onetime instructor in English at the University of Missouri. Lewin was associate producer (with the late Irving Thalberg) of such M. G. M. hits as Mutiny on the Bounty...
...tackling So Ends Our Night, Producers Loew & Lewin evidently tossed a large part of their Hollywood experience out the window, turned to European studios for guidance. It has the pace and scenic variety of a British thriller (The 39 Steps, Night Train}, some of the photographic intensity of pre-war French and German films. Unlike many previous U. S. anti-dictator films, it has maturity as well as indignation...