Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street with No Name. A skillful, conventional semi-documentary about G-men and young criminals, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME...
...This semi-farcical rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even...
Traditionally all-male University morning chapel services are now attended "semi-regularly" by a lady worshipper...
Handsome General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...
Street with No Name. A skillful, conventional semi-documentary about G-men and young criminals, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME...