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...Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley...
...getting into, say, The Sea Wolf only to be jerked rudely on to They Died with Their Boots On. Worse, that picture is represented not by its great scene-Custer's farewell to his wife -but by a battle sequence that does not have much meaning without director Raoul Walsh's superb imagery. However, films that depended on snappy cross talk for their best effects-Casablanca and The Big Sleep, for example-survive nicely as snippets of sound. In any case it seems graceless to be anything but grateful for what amounts to a collage education (or reeducation...
...Made the Movies. Produced, written and directed by Author and TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel, The Men concludes next week with a profile of King Vidor. The other past masters of American cinema profiled on the series: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman...
Scarcely less indelible is Raoul Walsh's detailed account of kidnaping...
...self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have been terrors on the set and in their private lives. But whatever their methods, all eight men achieved results that permanently altered the style of world cinema. Those results have never been better analyzed on television...