Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture must, if it is to be dramatically effective, tell the story of men, not just of ships. The obvious figure around which The Pursuit of the Graf Spee should have been built is that of Captain Langsdorff, whom Churchill himself described as "a high-class person." But the screen play of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger scarcely shows what happens on the German warship during the fateful engagement, and does not mention the captain's suicide at all. A potentially tragic figure thus never becomes even really interesting...
...Visit with Pablo Casals. A great cellist filling the screen with the tranquil luminosity of a mature art (TiME...
...airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...
...onetime Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins (who died in 1937), Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
...real life had outgrown the part (hair on the chest is permissible for a collie, but not a collie's young pal). With him went widowed Mom (Jan Clayton), who told viewers she had to move to the big city to look after Jeff, but off-screen confided that she was simply weary, weary of wearing the same shabby dress...