Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bringing the film version of Graham Greene's novel to New England for the first time, the Brattle has done local moviegoers a considerable favor. Although Leslie Storm's adaptation of the book does not provide high excitement and seems conscientiously to shun dramatic effect, it results in a picture that is severely honest and thought-provoking. The care with which director George More O'Ferrall and his cast have avoided any trace of trace of sentimentality helps convey to the screen the deeply depressing quality of Greene's novel...
...illuminate a vast range of topics all the way from freedom to fate and from love to loyalty, one theme dominates all the others. How great, he asks, is the responsibility of each man for the welfare of his fellows? The answer to this overwhelming question is a dramatized version of the biblical Golden Rule, set as a costume piece during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The protagonist of the play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady, a countess and sort...
...recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy as Carmen in the movie version of Carmen Jones (the singing was dubbed in by Marilynn Home), Eartha as the impish heroine of Broadway's Mrs. Patterson...
...Simon and three instruments, the third by chorus and instruments combined. (The Durer water colors of Inns bruck in the exhibition made clear why so many people hated to leave the little town.) With Simon and a lutanist at hand, I wonder why Beckwith gave us only the choral version of Dowland's charming ayre What If I Never Speed?; for Dowland himself included a setting for solo with lute accompaniment...
...those not attending a regular Spring Festival event tonight, the Oppenheimer interview with Edward R. Murrow will be shown in New Lecture Hall at 8:00 p.m. The hour film is the complete version of Murrow's "See It Now" program, on which J. Robert Oppenheimer discusses the government's security program and the goals of the Institute of Advanced Study. The free movie was obtained by the Brattle Theatre from the Ford Foundation...