Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Gelotte darkened the developer's darkroom door for several hours, and when the last reel had been sweated out, he ran the original film--the one and only--to a waiting Valpey...
...Still a risky venture because of high labor costs, according to one film producer who has turned out 26 two-reel shorts costing $10,000 apiece, which he cannot peddle...
...photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force. There is not a single cut in the film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept...
With her doom plainly forecast in the first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit...
...trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...