Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like an alert antiaircraft crew-one watching the sky to the south, the other to the north. A few minutes later, two shots split the morning stillness and two canvasbacks fell into the water. In an hour, they had their bag of four ducks apiece, got back to town in time to shave and get to work...
...Falls, on the east slope of the Cascades, are a duck hunter's heaven. The two hunters last week, like other local citizens, want to keep it that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
...place in Palm Springs, California's gold-plated winter playground for Hollywood stars and Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
...About Town (RKO Radio; Pathe) is the first movie that René Clair has made in France since 1934. The Brussels World Film Festival recently chose it-under its original title, Le Silence Est d'Or-as the finest motion picture made anywhere last year...
...certainly a finished piece of work, and it contains the bright promise that René Clair, one of the few outstanding talents in the film business, may not have finished his real work in the movies. Yet after completing Man About Town, Director Clair returned to Hollywood, an environment that has somewhat cramped his style for years. The sense of something finished hangs over the very conception of the film: it is, primarily and masterfully, an essay on moviemaking...