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...lyrics, and the whole picture is done in talking rhyme, which you will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because that too is a period piece and worth seeing. King Vidor's 1929 all-black film was the first studio production not to jes have'em singin' and dancin' away...
...King Vidor's Hallelujah, Friday and Saturday...
...truth, never plentiful along Vine Street, may be glimpsed in NET'S bright new series The Men Who Made the Movies. Produced, written and directed by Author and TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel, The Men concludes next week with a profile of King Vidor. The other past masters of American cinema profiled on the series: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman...
Films of the Gatsby Era. 1928. King Vidor's silent classic "The Crowd" centers on the struggles of a New York family in tough straits...
...drew these early film-makers to their calling with such a vengeance serves as example, justifying to an extent our own feelings that proper values can be restored, that we must take chances to put conviction in our own films and, as Karen Morley said of her director, King Vidor (in Our Daily Bread), that we must learn to think with our eyes...