Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granted to Joseph Lyman of Huntington, N. Y. a patent for a machine which uses radio beams to locate a plane in darkness or fog, plot its course through the skies on an indicator like a television screen. Anti-aircraft fire can thus be directed, it is thought, with even more accuracy than in present daylight firing...
...gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...
...truth lies far from either extreme. The "Nutcracker Suite" is strikingly beautiful, Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" is horribly realistic with the raw violence of the music matched by a dino saur death battle on the screen, and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hilariously comic--but Beethoven's "Pastoral" has become a bacchanalian nightmare and the Disney ballet which accompanies the "Dance of the Hours" is scarcely better than a Terry Toon...
...child, but they keep putting out pictures that a four-year-old would have a hard time digesting. The double bill at Keith Memorial is a perfect case in point. It consists of "Son of Monte Cristo" and "Play Girl," two of the corniest pictures that have graced the screen since Victor Mature went native in "1,000,000 B.C." "Son of Monte Cristo" is an attempted imitation of the grand old Douglas Fairbanks self-admitted horse opera and right now Douglas is probably doing a couple of agile back flips in his grave. Everything about it is weakly done...