Word: renee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
Using the entire squad, Coach Rene Peroy will endeavor to uncover some talent for the Andover encounter next Saturday...
...intoxicating mixture of spooks and nonsensical fun, "The Ghost Goes West", now showing at Keith Memorial, is just about the best thing in the last light-year of film reeled out of Hollywood. Jean Parker, just eighteen and refreshingly demure, is beautifully set by the skill of Rene Clair against the gentle sophistication of Robert Donat. And when haunts stop scaring you and make you laugh, you are bound to laugh twice as hard as usual...
Directed by Pierre Maudru, the plot is derived from Agaths Christie's mystery story, "Black Coffee". The stars are Rene Alexandre and Maxime Deajardins, both of the Comedic-Francaise. Students may obtain tickets at Exhibition Hall on presentation of their bursar's cards...
...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...