Word: slickness
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...Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...
...different than other people," says Santo. "When I do a landscape, I start with the sky and the mountains and I leave the foreground for the last. I like to get the far objects into it just as much as the near." The results are often closer to the slick naturalism of Luigi Lucioni than to the guileless sincerity of primitives like Grandma Moses...
...only complaints about Five Fingers are minor ones with regard to its title, the meaning of which struck me as obscure, and its final scene, which seemed unnecessarily cliched. Other than this it is a slick and highly successful piece of entertainment...
...hour packed so crammed full of singing, dancing, and musical shenanigans that it almost seems like a giant preview of a new 12 hour coming attraction. But Kelly's brilliant dancing, a sly plot about early sound movies, and a production as big as a house and slick as a card shark make "Singin' in the Rain a superb form of escapism. The film takes those portions of American musical comedy which Hollywood does well, and does them to perfection...
Oneto pictures sometimes have a slick, posterish quality, rely too often on monotonous tricks of contrast for their dramatic effect. But at their best, as in his bleak Two Houses, they catch a lot of the mystery and melancholy of U.S. cities in the small hours...