Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinemansion in which the film is projected on a screen on the ceiling, enabling customers to enjoy the show from reclining seats...
...Hammerstein has written a screen play as pleasing and deft as his lyrics. If the picture had delicacy and imagination to match its competence and good humor -and if its pastoral charm had real outdoor authenticity, instead of a germless soundstage look-State Fair might have become an entertainment classic. As it stands, it should be a solid...
Even when it drags, the screen story of Al Schmid has a compelling doggedness and honesty. The cast, especially Messrs. Garfield and Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...
...Song of Bernadette" is a simple tale, and it is told with sympathetic restraint. The usual gaudy theatrics are nowhere present to mar the strength of Franz Werfel's tale of the miracle of Lourdes. The screen writing is first rate; if any film ever possessed material to inspire its audience, "The Song of Bernadette" is that picture. Franz Werfel's imaginative reproduction of a modern revelation makes a very superior movie...
...this adds up to a top-grade movie; it will be a long while before another one like it comes to the screen...