Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detectives had been checking on the man for several weeks before a tip came in that he had returned from a hurried out-of-town trip, thus setting the stage for the combined police action. The suspect surrendered in his room without a struggle...
Three weeks ago Bingham was in Detroit and saw Valpey when he was there, rating him as the number one available man he met in the West. As far as the CRIMSON could learn last night, Valpey was the only prospective candidate for the job currently in town, and he had been called Monday from Ann Arbor...
Riskin's primary mistake, both as the producer of "Magic Town" and as its scenarist, is that he has attempted to invade the very special cinematic territory held securely by Frank Capra. "It's a Wonderful Life," Stewart's last picture, was a Capra production, and its successful mixture of fantasy, allegory, and sentiment was a demonstration of brilliant skill and showmanship. "Magic Town," on the other hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent...
...precision of the following brief synopsis, as the events were attached to each other in a highly unmemorable fashion, the story goes something like this: James Stewart, playing the part of a man who takes public opinion polls, is about to go out of business; he discovers the "magic town," a village which has the precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis of the town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must...
...this is particularly unfortunate when considered in the light of the fact Stewart has not made many pictures recently. His remarkable abilities are too rare to be treated carelessly when he does make a picture. They are evident in "Magic Town," but Riskin has made the least of them...