Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in silk screen printing, court tennis, Canadian gold mining camps and gold mine stock promotion, cryptography, soil conservation, sump pumps...
...proposed change would empower the Secretary of State to screen arms buyers and distinguish between "aggressor and aggrieved, peacemaker and troublemaker." He could refuse licenses which were not "in accord with the foreign policy or the security interests of the United States." The embargo would apply not only to arms and munitions, but to anything intended "directly or indirectly" for foreign military forces...
Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main, as decayed neighbors, are worked for a good deal of the great deal they are worth. The plot also bears down hard on MacMurray's interest (invented for the screen) in a rich lady farmer (Louise Allbritton) who drives a station wagon. It ends, happily, as soon as Miss Colbert has battled nature just long & hard enough to harvest her first baby...
Until this film loses control in pure melodrama it is one of the best pictures of the year-a frank and intelligent drama, powerfully directed and beautifully played. The true subtleties of classroom torture, as distinct from the simple brutalities, have never before been shown on the screen with such penetration. But about midway, Torment goes into double focus. What began so firmly, with such compassionate reality, becomes embroiled in mere horror-melodrama. In the long run, by trying to handle two things at once, the picture loses its grip on both...
...some of the headlines have not been the kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...