Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film industry can muster to its service. John Ford's careful, solemn direction; photography that is completely in accord with the spirit of the episode; a musical background that is head and shoulders above even the better things that Hollywood has done along that line in the past; superb acting performances, down to the smallest bit part--all these, have been smoothly welded into a first-rate job of cinematography...
...throughout there was too much theatre and too little attention to the continuity of the music. Victory seems to be working the Toscanini legend for more than it is worth at the expense of their own standards. When he is good, as in the Victory "Gotterdacmmerung" recordings, he is superb, but he is getting old and of late his performances have lacked evenness...
This simple story, however, would have turned out to be a cipher without the admirable handling which the Dramatic Club has given it. Judiciously mixing slapstick farce with the comic-ballet technique developed by the Moscow Art Theatre, director Ted Squier '43, has done a superb job. The caricatures of the officials are finely conceived and executed, while the final scene is a masterpiece of dramatic staging. The director had good actors to work with and the result is one of the most well rounded casts that H. D. has presented. Most of the actors are unrecognizable under their astounding...
...characters in the picture and a bunch of crooks in Louisiana is exactly what the authors intended, the film proceeds to chronicle the attempts of Victor Moore, a Caspar Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share of laughs, his somewhat peculiar talents are rather wasted...
...West Virginia's performance. In the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden which ended last week, little Hicks whisked in shot after shot from mid-floor, fat Hamilton tore around like a wide-open fire engine setting up plays in rich profusion, Kesling was superb at swooping through and sinking layups, and at tournament's end the assembled coaches voted Baric the most valuable player on any of the eight teams competing...