Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above average; the sight gags (one of the best: the Kingfish owlishly taking his Army medical exam) are expertly staged and played. Despite a protest from the directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People* that such shows "tend to strengthen...
Again Bogart plays a cynical, self-seeking neutral in an exotic city where the gallant and the shifty engage in life & death intrigues and a beautiful woman wants desperately to escape through a police blockade. Again Cynic Bogart rises in the last reel to a noble, sacrificial gesture, accommodated by a switch in character that should convince no one but the accountants who added up the script...
...movie gets the benefit of solid performances by Actors Calleia and Bickford, plus Director Rudolph Mate's efficient handling of a last-reel chase. But, like everything else in this saddle soap opera, the assets are defeated by the unstinted heroics of deadpan Actor Ladd...
Joseph H. Hockey, a third year law student, was injured last night when a heavy reel of film slipped off the balcony movie projector during a movie in New Lecture Hall last night...
...projector was located in the balcony and was partly jutting but over the heads, of the audience in the orchestra. The reel slipped loose and fall over 15 feet to hit Hockey directly in the forehead...