Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
Presenting Julie Haydon in Dale Eunson and Hagar Wilde's psychological thriller, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has spared none of the trimmings. Miss Haydon has long been a favorite with both Broadway and summer stock patrons; Andrew Mack's setting is bound to bring designing offers from the main stem, and the acting of the supporting cast is of an unusually high caliber...
Comedy was just once out of the top drawer (The Voice of the Turtle), just once out of the second drawer (Over 21). Otherwise it was mostly out of a musty old trunk in the attic. There was not one really good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book...
...wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...
...caught napping, has brought all of this to its public in typical fashion, adding new thrills with marvelous color photography. Big names, horses, Indians--what else--, and lots of extras have been thoroughly mixed, seasoned well with technicolor, and served hot in the newest Wild West thriller...