Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front in North Africa (U.S. Signal Corps-Warner) might be more appropriately titled "Darryl Zanuck's War." A Technicolor panorama of the early stages of the North African invasion, it was filmed by 42 Signal Corps photographers under Cinemaestro Zanuck's personal direction. It has all the Zanuck fingerprints: it is flamboyant, melodramatic, sometimes corny, sometimes hysterical-but never dull. A pretty picture, it never approaches the unvarnished realism of the best Nazi or Soviet war films...
These shots and the sound effects are the best things in At the Front. But Zanuck, invincibly Hollywood-minded, tried to dress up the film with arty shots of tank treads, dawns, sunsets, many another ill-placed frippery...
When At the Front reached U.S. cinema houses, Colonel Zanuck himself was not quite satisfied. Wrote he in his log:* "I don't suppose our war scenes will look as savage or realistic as those we usually make on the back lot, but you can't have everything...
...that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold 450,000 copies. As a play, it has entertained when it closed last fortnight, some 56,000 theatergoers. Producer Darryl Zanuck, who paid $300,000 for the film rights, is rushing production of the movie version...
...Cineproducer Darryl Zanuck...