Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has often used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
There are no bodies, mysterious train rides, or psycho-analysists in this latest slick Hitchcock production. The theme of this one is love, with some international intrigue and atmospheric photography thrown in for ballast...
...sheet of the film script, a stopwatch, and his boxer dog Mowgli beside him. Usually by the time the studios get the script to him, he has only about six weeks to do the entire score. Much of his work sounds like a cut-&-paste job on themes and orchestral effects out of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich. Some of his scores (for which he gets $15,000 to $20,000 apiece) have scarcely an original theme in them, are made up largely of a succession of transitions from one almost recognizable melody to another. Between contracts he tries...
Last week few U.S. citizens got through the week without hearing the melody of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at least once. Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version called Full Moon and Empty Arms were steady jukebox nickel-pullers. The theme was played more or less steadily through two current cinemas (Hollywood's Holiday in Mexico, England's Brief Encounter). Last week, Republic's I've Always Loved You made it three (see CINEMA...
...Sale. The Miracle of the Bells has also a special importance. It fervently exploits every last one of the most treasured American principles-the brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only to sex. In The Miracle, religious...