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SIX EASY PIECES THE SCREEN For many years now the movie studios have rushed to release a flock of films in December. This practice may have started when the income tax department had a special tax...

THE SCREEN: (December 1970)

MEANEST MAN IN TOWN THE SCREEN I was surprised the other day when Charles Dickens was telling me how much he liked the musical movie called Scrooge which was based on his much-loved short novel, A...

THE SCREEN: (September 1968)

LOOK BACK IN BOREDOM THE SCREEN Except for a couple of two-a-days ("2001" and "War and Peace") and a few exceptional films ("Nazarin," "Pe-tulia" and "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter") this summer...

THE SCREEN: (September 1968)

MAKING THE SUMMER THE SCREEN Perhaps I was too impatient in my last column in being so discouraged about the way movies continue to portray Negroes. Now to dispel my discouragement comes a film in...

THE SCREEN: (August 1968)

THE SCREEN I suppose (when the shouting about integration in movies and the film industry, and about black power and black culture, and about the new breakthrough of Negroes in films, although...

THE SCREEN: (August 1968)

THE SCREEN What with this magazine's alternate-week summer schedule and the plethora of new films on our screens, space is at a premium. So here is a run-down of imports now playing, all of which,...

THE SCREEN: (July 1968)

THE SCREEN Right from the beginning about 40 years ago (with "Un Chien Andalou" and "L'Age d'Or") the appearance of a Luis Bunuel movie started arguments among critics and general moviegoers about...

THE SCREEN: (July 1968)

FAIRISH SUMMER FARE THE SCREEN If the comedies now on our screens are a sample of what's in store for the summer, there is little cause for rejoicing. They are pretty thin stuff, and most of them...

THE SCREEN: (June 1968)

JAMES F. COTTER PRIMER Red, green, and gold, leaves burst like stained-glass windows in the white chapel of day. These are called trees. Red, brown, and gold, trees burn like sudden bonfires on...

THE SCREEN: (June 1986)

WILD SCENE THE SCREEN The oddball movies continue to pour in; and whether or not they are your dish of tea, these notes about some of the current items may prove useful. If the makers of "Wild in...

THE SCREEN: (June 1968)

CLOVEN FEET DANCING THE SCREEN This is the week for weirdies in film. And for any kind of enjoyment or appreciation of these movies you have to put yourself in the mood-just as when you go to the...

THE SCREEN: (June 1968)

SWIM HOMEWARD THE SCREEN I'll probably never understand the eccentricities of the studio publicity departments. For some reason, never explained, those in charge at Columbia Pictures were...

THE SCREEN: (May 1986)

RONALD ELLIS THE SWALLOW Like pages flicked by the wind, The sound of his falling. He clung to the garage windowsill, His feathers cleanly laced Against the rough, dusty wood. He slid through...

THE SCREEN: (May 1968)

FELIX POLLAK SONG I left without goodbye free as a bird you were the faintest cry from once-it-hurt Free as a bird leaned against thin air you were a gust of wind from never-were You were as...

THE SCREEN: (May 1968)

THE SCREEN It's humor time again. And for the benefit of moviegoers who haven't decided yet which items in the batch of new comedies are for them, here are a few notes that may help them realize...

THE SCREEN: (May 1968)

THE SCREEN It is interesting that those two bad boys of cinema, the superb film makers Bergman and Bunuel, should turn up with new pictures here at the same time; but it is less surprising that...

THE SCREEN: (May 1968)

WONDROUS STRANGE THE SCREEN Again and again as 1 was watching producer-director Stanley Kubrick's spectacular new epic "2001: a Space Odyssey," I wondered if I'd like living in this world of...

THE SCREEN: (April 1968)

HIS FAMILY THE WORLD THE SCREEN It is interesting that a couple of foreign films now on our screens were so slow in getting here. Perhaps American distributors were reluctant to pay the asking...

THE SCREEN: (April 1968)

THERE'S A SPY IN MY ASPIC THE SCREEN It's probably foolish, to predict the demise of any movie cycle. Some time ago I said the spy cycle was definitely on the way out and the private-dick movies...

THE SCREEN: (April 1968)

THE SCREEN Politics is one of the few subjects that Hollywood films usually leave alone. Except for such occasional bright items as "State of the Union," "The Best Man," "The Last Hurrah," and...

THE SCREEN: (March 1968)

THE SCREEN RACY MOTHER ENGLAND It's probably no more cricket for us to use British films to judge the amorality of the British younger set than it is for Europeans to say, "What do you expect of a...

THE SCREEN: (March 1968)

THE SCREEN Now that so many of our stars are no longer kids, producers making westerns (a genre in which movies excel) are faced with the problem of what to do with these aging actors. The...

THE SCREEN (April 1945)

THE SCREEN Two of the quartet of recent imports on our screens have the lyrical bounce of cinematic poetry; and these two films come, interestingly enough, from Russia and Japan. Although "Meet...

THE SCREEN (February 1966)

TRAGEDY AMONG FRIENDS 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN The one movie in last September's New York Film Festival that pleased both the squares and the illuminati was Czechoslovakia's "The...

THE SCREEN (October 1965)

tion that has already celebrated six regional congresses, the Christian Democratac Organization of America (ODCA), over which I have the honor to preside, and whose favorite topic has been precisely...

THE SCREEN (October 1965)

or the mystaque of Sardl's Their only crime is taking up space, and they generally don't take xt up for long "New thang" comedies, hke "Luv" or "The Knack" whach borrow eclectacally from films,...

THE SCREEN (October 1965)

MORE AGONY THAN ECSTASY 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 0 0 0 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 0 THE SCREEN The ecstasy comes when the concept is achieved, but the agony comes through the many failures and long years of...

THE SCREEN (October 1965)

FACES OF WAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O0 O0 0 0 THE SCREEN It seems inerechble to me that so many war films are made--and even more increchble that they still manage to fill the theaters. Yet...

The Screen (March 1964)

THE SCREEN How Gray Was Our Dorian THE much-touted British movie "The Servant," which was shown at the New York Film Festival last fall and has become a hit in England, is at last turning up on...

The Screen (March 1964)

THE SCREEN Tom and Hank AT THE beginning of the fine movie version of "Becket," King Henry II comes to the tomb of St. Thomas in Canterbury Cathedral to pray and do penance. His first words are,...

The Screen (February 1964)

THE SCREEN God and Men Turn Their Backs AGAIN and again during the course of Ingmar Bergman's latest film, "The Silence," I was reminded of "Last Year at Marienbad" and wondered if the Swedish...

The Screen (February 1964)

THE SCREEN What Five-Sided Building? IT'S NO wonder that the Pentagon is clamping down on cooperation with the movie makers. Some of the publicity that officers got in connection with assistance...

The Screen (February 1964)

THE SCREEN Backward, Turn Backward IT IS INTERESTING that the most absorbing film on our screens right now wasn't made as a film in the first place. It is "Point of Order," a 97-minute documentary...

The Screen (February 1964)

THE SCREEN Flow Gently Sweet Aston ALTHOUGH Harold Pinter's stage play, "The Caretaker," loses many frightening aspects in its conversion into a movie ("The Guest"), the film is still something to...

The Screen (January 1964)

THE SCREEN Time Present, Time Past AS KEEN as I was last year about Ermanno Olmi's first film, "The Sound of Trumpets," I am even more enthusiastic about this young Italian director's second...

The Screen (January 1964)

THE SCREEN Your Huddled Masses IT IS ODD that The Commonweal review in 1962 of Elia Kazan's novel America America should have questioned whether a movie would ever be made of the book. In telling...

The Screen (January 1964)

THE SCREEN By Victories Undone PERHAPS every war movie, as far back as "All Quiet on the Western Front" and even further back to "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), is in its way an anti-war film. But...

The Screen (December 1963)

THE SCREEN Love on the Run AT FIRST glance, it would seem that "Love with the Proper Stranger," with its young couple running through New York looking for an abortionist, is as unlikely as a...

The Screen (December 1963)

THE SCREEN Red Hat in the Sunset IN SPITE OF the build-up given it, "The Cardinal" is not really a controversial film. Among my friends who have seen it at previews, the non-Catholics have been...

The Screen (December 1963)

THE SCREEN Guessing Games THE HOLIDAY FILMS are beginning to reach our screens, and, as might be expected, most of them are straining like everything to be holiday-type entertainment. How well they...

The Screen (December 1963)

THE SCREEN Bleak Week THIS IS not exactly a cheery week for reviewers. Most of the new films we have to cover are on the so-so side, and their subject matters are even more gloomy. Best of the lot...

The Screen (November 1963)

THE SCREEN Though This Be Madness SINCE humor is such an individual thing, and one man's joke may be another man's pain-in-the-neck, I find it hard to tell how audiences will react to Stanley...

The Screen (November 1963)

THE SCREEN Of Death and Love JAMES Agee's beautifully-written novel, A Death in the Family, starts with "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there...

The Screen (November 1963)

THE SCREEN Quite Contrary OF ALL Hollywood products, the least predictable (and hardest to review) are comedies. That is probably why the studios turn so often to established stage plays, many of...

The Screen (November 1963)

THE SCREEN Scalene SOMETIMES even when one doesn't like what a film is saying, one has to admit it is saying it awfully well. Such a movie is the Polish "Knife in the Water," one of the better...

The Screen (November 1963)

THE SCREEN Steppe By Steppe THE TIME has come, or perhaps it's already past, for Hollywood to look to its laurels. Not only are the outstanding imported films like "81/2," "Winter Light," and "Tom...

The Screen (October 1963)

THE SCREEN Not Man But Manners AS SOON as it was decided that producer-director Tony Richardson, writer John Osborne, and actor Albert Finney (all of whom had rebelled their way through various...

The Screen (October 1963)

THE SCREEN What Makes Sammy Run? AT THE beginning of "The Running Man," I was afraid it was retelling the story of last spring's "Five Miles to Midnight," a rather foolish thriller in which...

The Screen (October 1963)

THE SCREEN See How They Spin ANYONE who has ever worked on a project with enthusiastic nuns convinced they are doing God's will should appreciate what Homer Smith is up against. But Homer, a Negro...

The Screen (October 1963)

THE SCREEN Soap Operas for the Bathos NONE OF the new dramas on our screens will send you rushing to the box office, but some have enough to warrant your interest. By far the most glittering is...

The Screen (September 1963)

THE SCREEN Novels Into Films MOVIE makers learned a long time ago that when they turn a novel into a film, they must employ movie technique, they must let the camera tell as much of the story as...

The Screen (February 1963)

daannel Of air kept open for the bird to be summoned up into? In using the stage not to solve his dilemmas esthetically but to exhibit them in their inchoate form, he is bringing about the...

The Screen (September 1961)

THE SCREEN THE SCREEMING MEEMIES SOMETIMES a lively fright in the theater is very relaxing. On our screens now are several re-laxers, none of which can stand too close scrutiny as cinematic art,...

The Screen (September 1961)

THE SCREEN SHAME AND GUILT ONCE AGAIN films from abroad prove the most provocativeâ€”not necessarily the best, but the most daring and original. A new batch illustrates the point well, even the...

The Screen (August 1961)

THE SCREEN SEE MY SHINING PALACE ON THE SAND IT SEEMS RATHER late in the summer to be listing movies of special interest to the younger generation, but there are still a lot of non-school hours in...

The Screen (August 1961)

THE SCREEN LOVE AND JOY OF ALL THE SAINTS in Catholic hagiology, it is no doubt the man from Assisi who has the most universal appeal for Catholics, Protestants and non-believers alike. Some of...

The Screen (July 1961)

THE SCREEN SUSPENSE WITH DECORATIONS IF YOUR preference in movies runs to suspense and thrills, "The Naked Edge" could well be your dish of tea. But you should be warned that this exercise, so...

The Screen (July 1961)

THE SCREEN LA BELLE FRANCE FRANCE IS displayed in all her beauty in a brace of new movies-and the country never appeared lovelier to a stay-at-home who looks longingly at the travel posters....

The Screen (July 1961)

THE SCREEN HIS BROTHERS' KEEPER WHILE AMERICAN movie makers continue to turn out one ordinary film after another, the Europeans continue to send us startling pictures that steal all the thunder....

The Screen (June 1961)

THE SCREEN WHAT MAKES A HERO? AS LONG AS the viewer is willing to settle for a well-done high adventure movie, he'll have a pretty good time at "The Guns of Navarone." But if he begins to be fussy...

The Screen (June 1961)

THE SCREEN JAZZ AGE UP-DATED IT IS UNFORTUNATE that "The Cheaters," a French film made by Marcel Carne in 1958, didn't turn up in this country a couple of years ago. It would have served as an...

The Screen (June 1961)

THE SCREEN HOW NOW NOBLE SAVAGE NO DOUBT many movie goers will be as surprised as I was at seeing how primitive some of the tribes visited by Lewis Cotlow in "Primitive Paradise" really are....

The Screen (June 1961)

THE SCREEN THE TROUBLE WITH MIMOSA CERTAINLY one of the world's most beautiful cities, San Francisco is shown off at its glittering best in the lovely Technicolor photography of in "The Pleasure...

The Screen (May 1961)

THE SCREEN THROUGH GLASSES DARKLY ALMOST EVERY shot of the young man who is the central character in the stunning Polish film "Ashes and Diamonds" shows him wearing dark glasses. He finally...

The Screen (May 1961)

THE SCREEN WHAT DID YOU HAVE IN MIND? SOMETIMES it is more than a little difficult to figure out what a producer is after in a certain film. It would be almost too cynical and easy for the...

The Screen (May 1961)

THE SCREEN THE WASTE LAND BETWEEN THE SYMBOLS at the beginning and end of "La Dolce Vita" is a series of episodes showing what's wrong with modern society. And what's seen as wrong with it is...

The Screen (May 1961)

THE SCREEN A TIME REMEMBERED CONSIDERING the wide attention given to the Eichmann trial and the phenomenal popularity of Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, it was inevitable that the...

The Screen (April 1961)

THE SCREEN CRY, 'HAVOC!' IT IS INTERESTING that two of the most powerful anti-war movies to appear on our screens in a long time are from abroad and from countries that were formerly our enemies....

The Screen (April 1961)

THE SCREEN APRIL SHOWERS PERHAPS the fair-to-middling movies that are turning up this spring are only the leftovers of our winter of discontent. In any case, the April fare is pretty skimpy; and...

The Screen (April 1961)

THE SCREEN IS SWEET REVENGE, even with action scenes and lush scenery in Technicolor, can get rather tiresome as the main theme of a lengthy movie. And Marlon Brando has made a very lengthy movie:...

The Screen (March 1961)

THE SCREEN OUT OF DESPAIR THE MAKERS of the multi-million, multi-color, multi-star religious spectacles might learn a thing or two from an unpretentious little film called "The Hoodlum Priest."...

The Screen (March 1957)

THE SCREEN COME TO THE FABLE WITH PLENTY of sentiment and adventure, "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" tells the story of a nun and a U.S. Marine marooned on a war-torn island in the South Pacific in...

The Screen (March 1957)

THE SCREEN PRETTY AS A PICTURE MOVIES may not be better than ever, as the slogan says, but they certainly are prettier. Although the three new films under discussion this week are rather uninspired...

The Screen (March 1957)

THE SCREEN LAUGHING DOWN THE LANE IF EVER a film was well named it is "The Happy Road," a delightful comedy produced and directed by Gene Kelly in Europe. Its story is simple enough, almost nothing:...

The Screen (March 1957)

THE SCREEN BIRD THOU NEVER WERT HOLLYWOOD, concentrating as it does on films of action and plot, seldom uses its celluloid to extol the spirit. For that reason alone, the Leland Hayward-Billy Wilder...

The Screen (March 1957)

THE SCREEN WHAT, NO PICKLES? PERHAPS the most remarkable thing about "Full of Life" is that it fusses so little with the standard jokes about pregnancy. Once Judy Holliday establishes the fact that...

The Screen (February 1957)

THE SCREEN A WEAD IN A GARDEN OF CLICHES THE OPENING scenes of "The Wings of Eagles" show John Wayne, as Frank Wead, a young Navy flier, trying to impress an Army officer (Kenneth Tobey) with his...

The Screen (February 1957)

THE SCREEN SIBLINGS ON THE RANGE ALTHOUGH IT is by no means the first psychological western, "Gun for a Coward" is rather effective at mixing Freudian findings with the great open spaces. Its...

The Screen (February 1957)

THE SCREEN IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT OEDIPUS? NO DOUBT Jerome Weidman started out with a good idea when he wrote the script for "Slander"-to show what the publisher and staff of a scandal...

The Screen (February 1957)

THE SCREEN REVERENCE FOR LIFE MOVIE BIOGRAPHIES of the living great are few, and most of them consist of newsreel clips or of stories fictionalized to make their heroes look good. "Albert...

The Screen (January 1957)

THE SCREEN IT CAN HAPPEN HERE ALTHOUGH truth is often stranger than fiction, it doesn't necessarily make a better movie. "The Wrong Man" is based on a true story, on events that happened to a New...

The Screen (January 1957)

THE SCREEN PLAYS INTO FILMS IT IS ODD that movie makers, who frequently turn to the theater for their material, often forget to adjust the borrowed play to the new medium. The current,...

The Screen (January 1957)

THE SCREEN BUILDING A HOUSE FOR LAST WINTER ON SELECTING my Ten Best List from the films of 1956, I was reminded of an Ethiopian proverb passed on to me by a friend who is teaching there. "You can't...

The Screen (December 1956)

THE SCREEN CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY AT THE YEAR'S end the studios usually pop up with their flashiest musicals to put audiences in a gala mood. This year, however, they are presenting three of the most...

The Screen (December 1956)

THE SCREEN EXCELSIOR SOME OF the new movies are going to the out-of-doors, but they don't go far enough. The studio shots and obviously artificial aspects detract considerably from the realism of...

The Screen (November 1956)

THE SCREEN WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND IT IS INTERESTING that one of the year's best films should come from Spain, a country that has sent us movies from time to time but never before anything of this...

The Screen (November 1956)

THE SCREEN BEAVER! LIKE THE elephant to the blind men, Michael Todd's scintillating "Around the World in 80 Days" is many things to as many people. It could be considered a travelogue, since...

The Screen (November 1956)

THE SCREEN THE CLEVER BOOBS WHILE THE movies, from the days of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd right up to Bob Hope and Danny Kaye, have celebrated the Great American Boob who always...

The Screen (October 1956)

THE SCREEN LONE STAR STATE OF MIND AS SPRAWLING as Texas itself is "Giant," George Stevens' movie based on Edna Ferber's novel about the Lone Star State. But in spite of its bigness and too lengthy...

The Screen (October 1956)

THE SCREEN BRAW LAD, BONNY FILM IF EVER a film exuded charm without being coy about it, it's "Wee Geordie," an import from Britain that is bound to win admirers in this country. Like so many gentle...

The Screen (October 1956)

THE SCREEN CRUMPETS ANYHOW? I'M NOT exactly sure what the movie of "Tea and Sympathy" is trying to prove. The stage version was about a boy in prep school who is suspected by his fellows, because of...

The Screen (October 1956)

THE SCREEN YELLOW, GLORIOUS, GOLDEN IN TELLING the story of Vincent Van Gogh in "Lust for Life," the paintings win out over the man. Magnificently photographed in Holland and France, John Houseman's...

The Screen (March 1951)

The Screen THE INNOCENTS WHETHER or not you like films imported from abroad, you've got to admit many of them are stimulating (not only to movie goers but also to American movie makers) and they...

The Screen (March 1951)

The Screen BLACK AND WHITE TOWARD the end of "The 13th Letter" Charles Boyer, portraying an elderly doctor in a French-Canadian town, tosses off a little lecture on good and evil: to the effect...

The Screen (March 1951)

The Screen PUTTING ASUNDER IN SPITE of the fact that "Payment on Demand" is a glorified soap opera and its whole story is built up as a thesis in defense of divorce, this movie will most likely hold...

The Screen (February 1951)

The Screen WHAT ARE FOREIGN FILMS SAYING? FROM THE newest batch of imported movies my preference is for "Angela," an Italian picture, with subtitles by Herman Weinberg. As a production "An-gelo"...

The Screen (February 1951)

The Screen SOOTHING THAT SAVAGE BREAST AS A RULE films about music and musicians sound good to the ear but are pretty dull visually. Once the camera has shown us what the musician looks like, it...

The Screen (December 1950)

The Screen D for Death, V for Violence HOLLYWOOD didn't indulge in cycles as much as usual during 1950. Perhaps having finished their discovery of psychology and having grown tired of hard-boiled...

The Screen (December 1950)

The Screen Les affaires sont les affaires ADMIRERS of "Brief Encounter," that fine Noel Coward film that won huzzahs some four years ago, will probably like "L'Affaire," a French import with a...

The Screen (November 1950)

The Screen Great Heart and Big Nose WHAT you may wonder most when you see the movie of "Cyrano de Bergerac" is why Hollywood never made it before. (I realize that the property rights to the play...

The Screen (November 1950)

The Screen Crawford, Crawford, Burning Bright IT is hard to decide in this week's program of films which offers the most frightening menace: the wild animals that threaten a safari in a...

The Screen (November 1950)

The Screen Chin Up THERE comes a week in the life of every movie critic when he suddenly realizes he's been through all this before; he's seeing the same old plots, with perhaps a few new trimmings...

The Screen (November 1950)

The Screen Three to Get Ready ARDENT admirers of W. Somerset Maugham will brook no adverse criticism of this estimable writer; so there is not much point, for the purposes of a review of a new film...

The Screen (October 1950)

The Screen PASSING THE BUCK "COUNTERFEITING started right after the first use of money," we are informed during the documentary-like introduction to a delightful new film called "Mister 880."...

THE SCREEN (June 1948)

The Screen Escape, in Five Easy Lessons COMEDIES and musicals are also decorating their plots with yesterday's costumes and settings. I'm not sure why producers think that the early 1900s are...

THE SCREEN (March 1944)

The Screen The Little Film EVERY moviegoer enjoys running on to a film that turns out to be a pleasant surprise-particularly when it is just a little film to which he went without great...

THE SCREEN (March 1944)

See Here, Pvts. Weems and Hargrove NO DOUBT it's a good healthy sign that Hollywood can poke a little satirical full at soldiers and army life. And its probably an even healthier sign that this...

THE SCREEN (March 1944)

The Screen Starring Technicolor HOLLYWOOD has very wisely avoided psychoanalysis as subject matter for movies. So the first comment to be made about "Lady in the Dark" concerns its novel cinema...

THE SCREEN (March 1944)

THE SCREEN What Are the Girls Up To? IN THE past few months the scheme of this column has changed somewhat. Films of unusual interest are reviewed at greater length, and films of a type are grouped...

THE SCREEN (February 1944)

The Screen Off Among the Rooshans I SUPPOSE Hollywood's heart is in the right place. At least we may assume the intentions of the film makers are strictly honorable in their efforts to make us like...

THE SCREEN (February 1944)

The Screen The Song Just as its title implies, "The Song of Bernadette" is a hymn sung in praise of the girl who was chosen to be visited by Our Lady. It has the earthy and story-telling qualities...

THE SCREEN (February 1944)

The Screen Not for Fraidy Cats HOLLYWOOD thinks up various ways of scaring its audiences. In two new films the unsubtle attack is used, but it succeeds in getting in some good scarey stuff. I prefer...

THE SCREEN (January 1944)

THE SCREEN One Man's Meat WHILE ALL the mad skelter for "Ten Best" lists usually irks me, I find myself fairly amenable to the idea at this time of the year; and without too much coaxing I can be...

THE SCREEN (December 1943)

The Screen The American Negro Theater ON THURSDAY, Friday and Saturday nights, the American Negro Theater is at present offering the Broadway comedy "Three Is a Family" at the Library Theater. An...

THE SCREEN (December 1943)

THE SCREEN High, Wide and Handsome TAKING advantage of the coming audience revolt against war films, Republic has made a little "epic" that goes back "In Old Oklahoma" to the early 1900's for...

THE SCREEN (November 1943)

THE SCREEN Pleasures Are Like Poppies Spread THREE widely different films are offered this week, and while none of them will go down as notable contributions in the history of cinema, all three...

THE SCREEN (November 1943)

The Screen The Petrified Forest A COMMENDABLE JOB, this also represents a courageous venture on the part of Mary Elizabeth Sherwood; for this producer has reopened the New Amsterdam Roof Theater...

THE SCREEN (November 1943)

THE SCREEN Men Without Women WE ARE fortunate this week in having three war films of unsually high calibre. "Sahard' is the kind of fighting-in-the-desert movie that has been made before and will...

THE SCREEN (November 1943)

THE SCREEN One Good Gripe; Three Fair Films BEFORE discussing this week's routine feature films (and routine is the word for them) I should like to register a complaint. My gripe is this: the...

THE SCREEN (October 1943)

THE SCREEN Of the Same Name MANY is the movie you have seen that bears the credit line, "Based on the book of the same name." It seems appropriate therefore to consider in this fall book number...

THE SCREEN (October 1943)

The Screen Sentiment and Satire "PRINCESS O'ROURKE" is a delightful Amer-ican fairy tale for grownups. It tells the story of a royal princess whose country was overrun and whose family is in...

THE SCREEN (May 1942)

homicide department's scientific laboratory When this town finally elects a good mayor who sincerely tries to clean up the racketeering, he is blown to bits by one of the crooks who is determined...

THE SCREEN (October 1941)

THE SCREEN War in Earnest; War in Fun SENATORS NYE and Clark are going to have to work overtime not only to see the earlier crop of films that they suspect of having pro-war propaganda, but also...

THE SCREEN (October 1941)

THE SCREEN Factual-and Some Fictional CATHOLIC cinemagoers whose appetites were whetted in '39 by the March of Time short on the Vatican can now see the same company's hour-length "The Story of the...

THE SCREEN (September 1941)

THE SCREEN Films for Relaxation THE MAIN TROUBLE when cinema tackles a semi-mystery like "Poison Pen" is that movie-wise audiences know that the film's star is not in the picture just to be the...

THE SCREEN (September 1941)

The Screen The Evil That Men Do "TWKE us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." That is the Old Testament verse from which Playwright Lillian Hellman...

THE SCREEN (May 1941)

The Screen For the Brain; For the Heart GEORGE BERNARD SHAW goes out of his satir- ical way in his plays to make his characters behave very nicely at first and say well the good things you want to...

THE SCREEN (May 1941)

THE SCREEN The Villain Still Pursues CINEMA-GOERS, who enjoy an adult melodrama, who thought "Rebecca" just about filled the bill, will find "A Woman s Face' very much to their liking. Its script,...

THE SCREEN (May 1941)

THE SCREEN Pretty Girls Do Not a Movie Make "THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS" is a picturesque whimsy for adults about a bad woman who pretends she's a countess to ensnare a wealthy bachelor and then...

THE SCREEN (May 1941)

THE Screen In Xanadu Did Kubla Kane AFTER getting an unprecedented amount of free ballyhoo (ranging from that baked ham with the pasted-on beard which was sent to Orson Welles, all the way to...

THE SCREEN (May 1941)

THE SCREEN Glancing Over Psyche and Strikes HICCUPS is her ailment. So she goes to a psychoanalyst who probes and makes her marriage-conscious; and she discovers that the trouble with her husband is...

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