Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Screen Producers Guild has judged Ivy Films' "Gold Coasting," a film sketch of Harvard House living, one of the six finest college motion picture productions...
...Magician (Columbia, 3-D), is a follow-up to the money-making House of Wax (TIME, April 20), again starring Vincent Price. Explains a Columbia official: "Everything pops out of the screen in this one. Price is shown cutting off a girl's head with a buzz saw. He is burned to death in a big steel box with a glass window...
...Actress (MGM) was an expert comedy when Actress Ruth Gordon wrote it for the stage (as Years Ago, it ran for six months in 1947), and it is an expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...conveniently fill the excess space. Success by gimmick can only occasionally be used, otherwise it becomes obvious and annoying. This consideration would seem to proscribe the use of CinemaScope for the filming of epics. The Robe, with its Biblical sweep, is easily adopted to the requirements of the large screen. It is doubtful, though, that this medium could be used successfully with intimate boudoir comedy...
Perhaps the most significant fault of the new process is its failure to inspire in the audience a sense of closeness, intimacy, or identification with the action on the screen. Undoubtedly The Robe was produced primarily for pageant value. But one might expect from a film upon which so much time, energy and money were devoted a convincing insight into the psychological and spiritual conflict which are the bases of a religious awakening. This The Robe clearly fails to do. It graphically and boldly displays pagan evil but does not explore its consequences in emotional and spiritual terms...