Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obviously believes in handicapping himself like one. What keeps his melodramatic gamble from bankruptcy is the elemental tension of man against man, as it is reflected in the mirror-simple playing of Ben Piazza, as the American, and the emotionally prismatic portrayal of the Japanese by old (69) Silent Screen Star Sessue Hayakawa...
What the boys at 20th Century Fox have done is the old familiar gag of buying the screen rights to a famous novel paying the author enough so he'll keep his hands off and then making a movie, ignoring the book as far as possible...
Onto the television screen flashes the image of a widowed U.S. worker, five little girls and a boy huddled around him. Their problem is spelled out to the viewer: what does a man do if he has six motherless children and no hope of a job? Answers the worker: "I don't want to put them in a home. The nearest thing for me is the river, but that's a horrible thought...
...Must Die (French). The screen's most compelling religious statement in years...
...East of Eden" is a fine movie with which to begin the post-vacation term. Presumably the viewer has been softened-up with enough adult westerns and 21-inch-screen emotions to welcome Julie Harris, Burle Ives, Raymond Massey and even Jimmy Dean. Besides, it's all in technicolor and wide-screen, which is quite a treat at the Brattle...