Word: screened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some hazy psychological stuff and a tangle of flashbacks hamper "The Long Night," but nevertheless the picture is a success. Henry Fonda, who shoots one of the slimiest characters seen recently on the screen, recaptures what will have to be called his "faith in humanity,' and after keeping off the police for a long night full of well-filmed memories, goes with hope to his trial...
...Since her last picture, The Two-Faced Woman (1941), Garbo has kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia (1944), a wartime boost for America's Red ally. MGM's comeback was a reissue of Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), a picture that kids the pants off Bolshevik commissars. As soon as prints are ready, Ninotchka will be re-released in most of the nation's larger cities...
Only one witness would stand still long enough to be counted. He was quiet-spoken, 45-year-old Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild and a member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested...
...Instead of buckling down to the problem of Communism where it hurt, as in the labor unions, it had gleefully pounced on Hollywood, where the publicity was brighter. It had failed to establish that any crime had been committed-i.e., that any subversive propaganda had ever reached the screen...
...Betrayal (Screencraft; Idea Film), concentrates on the incalculable labor that has gone into raising up Zion out of wasteland. It is photographed harshly and powerfully, and cut in the manner more brilliantly developed by Sergei Eisenstein. Despite its repetitiousness, the best of the film is an impressive-and exhausting-screen poem about hard work, and the profound sense of identity with a piece of the world that grows...