Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great surprise of classical physicists, the electrons, recorded on a screen after they went through the holes, made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...
After two successes with this costly type of horse opera (My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead - Son of Flicka), 20th Century-Fox knew exactly what it was about in this elaborate remake of Smoky (first, filmed in 1933). Suitable screen credit for Equine Supervision was awarded to Jack Lindell, who claims to have talent-scouted 38 states before he finally discovered a piece of horseflesh handsome enough to play the title role...
...portrayal of a murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished. He forgets the depth of the character in completely failing to expose that "soft center" he claims to have. But Montgomery had some advantages: first, of being a superior actor, and second, of having, on the screen, a medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which the murderer's guilt is contained. Dame May Whitty, a rather old party whose very name takes the place of a huge neon sign, plays the dowager who bestows her repressed maternal affection on the strangler...
...shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs were back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched by poison...
Thanks to the practiced hand of Hollywood Oldtimer Joe Mankiewicz, who directed and co-authored the screen play, Somewhere in the Night is a taut, tidy package of suspense. But what 20th Century-Fox publicists are excited about is screen newcomer Nancy Guild, who looks, talks and acts a bit too much like the same studio's Gene Tierney for her own good. Nancy was a University of Arizona coed until LIFE recently printed some photographs of her modeling college-girl fashions. Darryl Zanuck took one look, issued the necessary ringing proclamation; a new leading lady was born...