Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture, which is based on the novel of W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," in which Robinson gained his first screen fame, deals with a man whose passion for gambling is so strong that he gives up love and home and practically everything in life considered worthwhile because...
...Death Takes A Holiday", adapted for the screen by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman from the famous stage play by Alberto Casella, and presents Frederic March, as a "shadow", Death. For three days, Death takes a holiday from his grim task to task life as a human being, and discover, if he can, what makes life so sweet, and himself, Death, so abhorrent. March, in the disguise of a handsome, adventurous gentleman, appears at a house party and throws himself into the circle of the sophisticated group. To each of the beautiful young women present, March makes love in turn...
...mica were 3,000,000 dots of photosensitive material. Light falling on the mica set up an electromagnetic tension which was discharged by an electron beam. The changing pattern of this discharge could be transmitted by radio. At the receiving end the image was reproduced on a fluorescent screen by a reversal of the iconoscope's operating principle...
...information for fear the size of their salary lists would create an unwarranted impression of affluence which in turn would result in a sharp upping of amusement taxes. Last week, the Hays office received protests that Producer Goldwyn's article was a violation of production ethics. The Screen Actors' Guild wired him congratulations...
...savage menace of the desert with its blazing sun and blinding sandstorms, and the varied emotions of eleven men facing inevitable death at the hands of unseen enemies, are woven into "The Lost Patrol", a powerful screen play with Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale and other distinguished film luminaries. The story deals with a detachment of British cavalrymen who become aimless wanderers on the Mesopotamian desert when their officer is killed by Arabs. Only the officer knew where they were, what their orders were and when and where they were to rejoin their brigade. That knowledge died...