Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished Years Ago from standard A Star Is Born cliches. Teresa Wright, who always appeared to be a pretty girl, is made to look careworn and greying as the mother. But an even greater error in judgment than this is the showing of the film on the new Panoramic screen. Since this greatly magnifies the picture, quick movements flicker and blur. Besides this, Spencer Tracy is now not only in front of the viewer but on each side as well. It seems a misuse of technology somehow...
Perhaps if it rained more in Southern California, there would be a little competition for British film comedy. As it is, Tonight at 8:30 so far outstrips any effort on the American scene that comparison is impossible. Imported to the screen from a Noel Coward production, the film presents three unrelated one act plays, "The Red Pepers," "Fumed Oak," and "Ways and Means," any one worth the price of admission...
With many remarkable virtues, the screen version of Nicholas Montsarrat's novel proves that British films can overstate their famous technique of understatement. Depicting five years of war on board a British corvette escorting conveys, the Cruel Sea dampens even highly dramatic episodes with a monotonous restraint that rarely varies the emotional pitch of the film. Only in the flaw less performance of Jack Hawkins as the captain of an inexperienced crew is there a gauge of the intensity of each experience. In spite of Hawkins, the two hour film often seems as endless as the ocean which hides...
...scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins to listen himself for the sonar pings that warn of a nearby U-boat...
...found the answer to all of Hollywood's ills. Moviegoers may not want to be inundated with furious sight and sound every day of the week. And, impressive as is the wide CinemaScope screen, it is also curiously oppressive for eyes trained to the simpler demands of "flat," ordinary films. Can CinemaScope be used for anything except ponderous spectacles and chorus lines? Twentieth Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl Zanuck thinks it can, and will attempt to prove his point with the soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe...