Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electro) was regrettable. John Ford's The Fugitive drowned in romantic beauty and in solemn unreality, but had majesty of ambition and continuous intensity of treatment. In The Macomber Affair, Zoltan Korda made movie sense out of a piece of Hemingway's fiction...
Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank had stood his ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...
...wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...
...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...
Edmund Gwenn turns in a ripe performance, in the Fyffe role, as a drunken, bragging Scottish father; there are some memorable Technicolored registrations of solemn night skies and sullen landscapes; and the sequences in which the competing dogs work their sheep have a silent, lovely concentration on pure skill that makes the rest of the picture worth idling through. Thunder in the Valley is no Lassie and certainly no To the Victor, but it is a pleasant, gentle retelling of a fine old story...