Word: screened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the Paramount Theater threw its audience into an uneasy uproar by flashing on the screen, without warning, a television picture of the audience at the Paramount Theater, watching itself being televised...
...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
Newcomer Scott Brady (brother of Cinemactor Lawrence Tierney), who plays the most redeemable of the fugitives, has a likely future on the screen, and Mabel Paige is fine as the very frightened, very brave old woman who conks the deadliest character (well played by Jeff Corey). Warden Roy Best is unaffected and unembarrassed as Warden Roy Best...
...enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even their efforts, plus Bendix's straightforward performance, do not save...
...story might have serialized nicely in the old American Boy. It is filmed (much of it at West Point) with romantic feeling for place and protocol, and there are appropriate performances by Ladd as the animated ramrod and by Miss Reed, the screen's All American Nice Girl. Most of the military people, however, are such Galahads, and most of the male civilians are such slobs, that ordinary men will probably slink out of the theater with their hats over their faces...