Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policeman's Lot. In Cincinnati, Detective Herman Kahn chased Owen Donovan up & down 25 flights of hotel stairs for an hour and a half, caught him, learned that playful Donovan "couldn't sleep and decided to get some exercise...
...fresh, and all of it is fast-moving. It has nice tunes and even nicer dancing. But what really gives it the New York Look are Arnold Horwitt's extremely lively lyrics and brightly satirical skits. One funny ditty has all those who ruin the city's sleep-street diggers, taxi drivers, milkmen, newsboys-bawling...
...Twelve hours of sleep before an exam," Bock concluded, "will always bring better grades than 12 hours of study...
Murder mysteries are all the same, and the only way to judge them is to evaluate their treatment. There is nothing in the format of a who-dunit which will make a good film or be anything other than a common-place. But the producers of Sleep My Love have taken such a common-place tale and by skillful directing, acting, and photography turned it into a neat suspenseful package...
Probably some of the best camera work of the past year is displayed in Sleep My Love, ranging from a harrowing shot of a body hurtling down a stair well to a uniformly brilliant group of backgrounds. Even the scene changes are executed with finesse. Attention to such camera detail is what brings Sleep My Love out of the mediocre class. Augmenting the lens work are a half dozen or more non-essential but suspense building scenes, some of them cinematic gems in themselves. A Chinese wedding an airplane ride, and a chance meeting at Logan International Airport all bring...