Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Richard Heffron keeps things under control and, but for moments in the final act, has the pace so exhilarating that none of the audience found it necessary to talk or fidget. In fact, only during some overlong and poorly selected songs (i.e. "John Henry") between acts by producer Dean Gitter did the audience do anything but gaze with admiration at a thoroughly delightful production...
John Ford deserves much credit for the smoothness and interest of the formerly dull plays. He keeps the pace fast and stresses action to break up the long stretches of dialogue. His lurking camera finds unexpected stances and hiding places from which to catch the actors in their ship hoard and barroom life. Full force of storms and brawls come to the audience through the mobile camera eye, and the feeling of close shipboard quarters presses in as a man lies dying in a narrow bunk...
...various quarters that the picture existed for itself in its own right−that the colors and forms employed were sufficient unto themselves, that the artist lived in his picture, that the picture was a work of tensions, and so forth ... It was said that the artist was keeping pace with science; relativity and the time-space continuum were called upon; and for the most ambiguous of statements in paint it was asserted that the artist was reflecting the confusion, the disillusion, of our times. "This sort of rationalization after the fact reached such a point . . . that the correspondent...
...Bird Dogs. Florida's agriculture has kept pace with its industry. In the center of the state, citrus groves were heavy last week with the biggest crop in history (an estimated 130 million boxes). The "bird dogs," i.e., the middlemen in the industry, sent radio-directed trucks speeding from grove to grove, lining up likely buys. Not long ago, such a huge crop would have meant vast surpluses, and the dumping of millions of bushels of fruit into Florida's lakes and rivers. But "this year, almost every orange and grapefruit will be sold at good prices...
...scenes rush by at almost too agitated a pace; the moviegoer, continuously aware that the vehicle is trying to beat the clock, may begin to feel like getting out to push. At 119 minutes, this might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry...