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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from internal evidence in Thieves' Highway, that the Johnston Office is letting down the bars on what is and is not censorable. In this movie a prostitute (Valentina Cortesa) wins the hero from the-girl-back-home with whom he had been violently in love only two days earlier. Besides this reversal of Hollywood tradition, there is an excessively steamy love scene between Cortesa and Conte after an excessively cute game of ticktacktoe on his left pectoral...
...drawing room of the lonely castle, the English owner, Mrs. Tennant, whose son is away on active service, sits with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jack, and tries to talk about the only two things that interest her-her son and the reliability of the servants. But Mrs. Jack hardly answers; unknown to her mother-in-law, she is a mass of nerves trying to conceal her love for another...
...their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound creation, warm as toast towards her Charley but cold and calculating as a stockbroker in getting him under the lock & key of matrimony. Cobwebs over Eire. Two such masterly characters deserve a masterly stage-set, and Author Green supplies it. Hollywood could make of Loving a movie almost as stunning as the novel, simply by faithfully following Green's sharp, quick series of glittering scenic plays and his natural, jumping dialogue. And a good director could...
...place from which light was almost excluded now by cobwebs across its two windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which...
Divide & Conquer. In Manhattan, two ex-convicts who had joined forces to rob pretty Eleanor Joly were nabbed by police when they came around again to make separate social calls...