Word: reels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help add to the expense account, if not overly much to the quality of the film-Herbert Marshall, for instance, though listed prominently in the cast, makes only a fleeting appearance in two or three scenes in the first reel before being killed...
Magnificence & Muddle. Unlike most of the few films which try with any honesty to say anything remotely worth saying, this one does not, in its last reel or so, duck out from under. In Chaplin's last minutes, instead, he opens up with his heaviest guns, and sticks by them to the bitter end. In the whole two hours of the film, there is not one instant of bidding in any shabby way for the audience's sympathy. Morally alone, this is a remarkable thing to have done...
...politically wise mother. Some sixty minutes, a Swedish massage and numerous political shcunnanigans later, the former domestic finds herself running in a congressional race against the man supported by her former employers. To complicate matters further, an indiscretion committed by the aspiring congress-woman in the first reel and long since forgotten by everyone, including the audience, comes back to plague her campaign...
...evening's program, and, strangely enough, it isn't bad at all. Called "Blind Spot" and featuring Chester Morris, it is a psychological murder mystery of unusual quality, at least for the B-picture category. Although the villain's identity is hardly much of a secret after the first reel, dialogue, direction, and photography must place "Blind Spot" far, far above the great majority of its class--better, perhaps, than a good number that pass as first-run productions in these lean times...
...Cinemactor Ronald Reagan gave from the heart in introducing a reel of excerpts from Oscar-winning films of yesteryear: "This film embodies the glories of our past, the memories of our present and the inspiration for our future." When the film came on, it was running backwards...