Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funnier if the emboldened boy had made love like a movie star-and that in turn would have afforded one of the few scenes in history in which cinematic ootchmagootch* was unquestionably authentic. Mr. Boyer makes an artist's façade and unspoken opinions reasonable on the screen, Miss Dunne ought to be able to make quite a go of politics. Mr. Coburn, as always, must be described as "dependable." Too often that adjective compares unfavorably with a blunt instrument. In his case, however, it covers a multitude of talents...
...intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full of its disappointed death...
...March of Time, with Professor Richards' assistance, is producing a series of four shorts on Basic English which will be used for foreigners learning the language as well as backward readers. A new experiment in education, these pictures emphasized audience participation, with spectators shouting the words back at the screen actors...
...Seconds Over Tokyo (M.G.M.) is a very sincere effort to do something almost hopelessly difficult on the screen: to remain true to a true story. In every respect this effort to tell the truth about the Doolittle raid is a tribute to the patience of its quiet, thorough producer, Sam Zimbalist; in many respects, it is successful...
...began as a book, Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller. After two scenarists had taken a shy at making it into a screen play, it fell to the brilliant Preston Sturges (Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero}. As Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice...