Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three other pictures won places on three lists: John Huston's Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan...
Joan of Arc (Sierra Pictures; RKO Radio) gives Ingrid Bergman the biggest role in her career. She almost fills it. If the rest of the movie were up to Miss Bergman, it could be rated very close to excellent. As it is, it rates A for effort...
...film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says Wanger: "Right now people are confused. They need orientation. They want something more reassuring than material things...
Clearest instance of the picture's split personality is the work of Cameraman Ted McCord. Perhaps a third of his shots are as pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly...
Enjoyed TIME'S [Sept. 27] coverage of Earl Warren's special train . . . Reference to the ''engine backing slowly," however, may prompt some of the West's railfan enthusiasts to write you,* since the train was powered over the Sierra not by a backward-operating locomotive but by one of this company's powerful cab-ahead-type locomotives...