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...challenge is to "make them well enough so that they work at 51% effort. If the movie is made at 100% effort, it is indulgent." And likely to suffer unbearable cost overruns. "Cimino made Heaven's Gate at 150%." Moviegoers, says the frugal Lucas, will buy a weakish special effect or even stock footage as long as their emotions are engaged. "If it gets dreary, then they notice," he says. In Raiders, only sharp-eyed cineasts will know that a shot of a DC-3 flying in the Himalayas was bought from the remake of Lost Horizon or that...
...Jumbos boast a weakish 2-4 record, with losses to Holy Cross and Brown teams, both of which, in turn, lost to Harvard...
Those who saw the picture found it far less thrilling as propaganda than interesting as a clue to the mental aberration known as censor's mind. The film is a dullish cinematizing of Shephard Traube's weakish story, Goose Step, portraying the sufferings in a concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...
...Parson's sonnet Beside the Sea is sufficiently poetic to be promising, though it weakens in the final verse. A weakish end mars also Mr. Sanger's little poem, which has, in general, a pretty movement. Mr. Putnam's Prayer presents a simple and attractive idea in poorly finished verses. Mr. MacVeagh's Treasure Trove is undistinguished. Mr. Leffingwell's Predestined, though faulty in certain details and needlessly long, shows poetic feeling and some sensitiveness to poetic diction...
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