Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
...Tension (MGM) details the violent domestic problems of a Los Angeles druggist (Richard Basehart) and his cheating wife (Audrey Totter). Tormented by her weakness for hanging around the store and picking up his customers, the druggist elaborately plots the death of a salesman who finally carries...
Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she calls him Pinky. Hepburn's elegantly arranged bones and Tracy's assurance as an actor make them worth looking at in any movie, but the stars are called on for some aggressive cuteness in this one. Item: during a courtroom duel between them, Pinky is forever dropping...
...MGM's leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow...