Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Chaplin's "personality" offended the Independent Theater Owners of Ohio. The group, owners of 325 movie houses, urged all other U.S. theater owners to boycott Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux, and not waste "valuable screen time ... to his financial benefit...
...best sincere, ordinary and likable, without exciting much interest. But whenever the individual actors are ignored and the camera watches the hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving misery...
...already been proved that Shakespeare (Henry V) can be transferred satisfactorily to the screen, but the sizable problems of transferring opera are hardly recognized in this unpretentious movie. This is merely a conventional stage production modified by equally conventional movie devices. It is good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian...
...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...
Excerpts from the script were carried in the Moscow News, only English language daily newspaper in the Soviet Union. The play, written by Nikolai Virta, has not yet appeared on any screen...