Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This greater tale, as you might easily suppose, is the growth of America, particularly as viewed from a country in the midwest. The Civil War here marks the maturing of the man and of the country, and that is only the most generalized cross-reference between plot and history. Every major event in the hero's life occurs, symbolically enough, on a Great Day in American History--Johnny Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously...
...Pietro, Let There Be Light), who wrote the screen play and directed the film, adapted it from a novel by Mexico's Mysterious Stranger, B. Traven. The story, ideal for movie purposes, is a sardonic, intensely realistic fable, masterfully disguised as an adventure story. It is a tale about three Americans of the mid-1920s, on the bum in Tampico. Running into modest luck in a lottery, they strike off into the depths of Mexico's mountains in search of gold...
There is a rumor of the physics major who stayed up three nights in a row and left his exam confident of an "A." Actually, he had filled the bue book with nothing but his name, written over and over. Another tale current in the Hygiene precincts concerns the Sophomore who wrote all his exam one one line of the book, forgetting to go on to the next...
...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...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's tense and rather too tricky courtroom tale of a woman's trial and a lawyer's error; with Gregory Peck surrounded by supporting stars (TIME...