Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boffola of the Soviet screen is Meeting on the Elbe, and it has everything-American reactionaries, stolen secret formulas, a sexy, blonde FBI undercover agent, music by Shostakovich. Above all, it has a message. So far 2,000,000 Moscow movie fans have seen it; it has packed 22 of the Russian capital's 50 movie theaters...
Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays-Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)-stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted...
Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
Farsighted newsreelers think that one hope for their survival in theaters lies along a trail blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows...
Donald Thompson, playing the difficult role of a scared and frustrated youth, is competent as are few actors on the screen today. His shuffling walk, his painful stare, convey a sense of frustration and misery that lacks nothing. The supporting players, none of whom are "name" actors, bring out to the fullest the psychological implications of every scene. Clarence Cooper, a counsellor at Wiltwyck, plays himself in an especially sympathetic and understanding...