The Film Daily (1948)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1948
Publisher:
Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jan-Mar 1948)
Leaf #:
000514
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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10 Wednesday March 31 1948 tr film DDILV REVIEWS Of REUI FEATURES : THE PIRATE M-G-M 102 Mins. Long in Technicolor eye appeal, creditably embroidered with Cole Porter tunes & plentifully studded with feminine beauty, here is one to test audience credulity. ..Plot is humdrum... Is theater within theatricalise. . .Roles are rendered with constant appearance of tongue-in-cheek ...Scenario is a re-working of the story wherein a notorious pirate hides out as a politico aa. a Carib Isle and a slick strolling player unmasks him when the competition for the fairest flower becomes too keen... Gene Kelly lends the character he impersonates unrestrained impersonation and lays it on thick.. .Judy Garland is properly perplexed by the events. Involved in the proceedings also are Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, George Zucco and assorted talent. . .Entertainment charge has song, dance, comedy ingredients. . .At length Kelly recruits Miss Garland and they are a fine pair... Pic has a catchy tune for conclusion. Vincents Minelli's direction okay... Color photography splendid. RUTHLESS Eagle Lion 104 Mins. Top drawer production in this one is supplemented by a good collection of names to provide audience lure... Drama content is concerned with relentless pursuit of success by Zachary Scott who climbs to the top notwithstanding whom he trample's. . .Performances generally unrestrained. Imaginative screenplay resorts to flashback constantly.. .Inspecting the growth of Scott's ego and domination of the financial world, the yarn displays his origin, rise, demise.. .His viotims catch up with him when he is about to give it all up... Name values in cast include Louis Hayward, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Diana Lynn, Martha Vickers.. .For the general run of audiences ARE YOU WITH IT? U-I 90 Mins. Plentifully suppxied with song and dance... Donald O'Connor adept and active in his routines.. Olga San Juan and Martha Stewart display plenty in the line of pulchritude. . .Good musical offep. ing with laughter punctuation. . .Should do well with most audiences... Plot has carnival flavor. THE TIOGA KID Eagle Lion 5U Mins. Standard Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt western that delivers up the star in dual role ...Has required complement of action, songs, brawls, shooting and such like... Will fill the western portion of the bill. TO THE VICTOR Warners 100 Mins.. Lacking a certain emphatic clarity, this display of melodramatic intrigue in postwar France >as merit in that it introduces the Swedish act(y;ei, Viveca Lindfor8 to U. S. audiences and also its on the spot production. ..Pic was shot in and around Paris, on the Normandy invasion beaches. High capability is demonstrated by Miss Lindfors and the portrayers of the major roles... They include Dennis Morgan, Victor Prancen, Bruce Bennett, Dorothy Malone, Tom D^ndrea. .. Superior quality of the production captures and enhances the foreign locale which is the real thing. Jerry Wald Produced.. .Sharp suspense note sets off the tale. . .Undefors is almost slain by cohorts of her collaborator husband, returned to France for trial as a traitor She meets Morgan and they elude the pursuit... Francen wants Lindfors to testify.. .The lengthy footage is given to much inner soul searching by almost all involved.. .It comes out they are an unsavory lot, out to make a Black Market buck, regardless of principle or moral. . .Frances induces Morgan to come over to his side.,. They conceive a plan... When it is in post operative stage the two vicious elements have eliminated themselves from the scene via gunplay.. Lindfors indicts her renegade husband. ..Morgan is at her side.. .Delmer Daves' direction x8 generally good. THE ARIZONA RANGER RK0 61 Mins. High quality western fare. . .Features Jack Holt and son Tim... Father and son combination results in sock western drama with an interesting development permitted in the script. ..Has to do with rustlers in the Arizona Territory and how Tim, a lawman, breaks up the gang with an assist from Jack. . .Should be very well received... Top line performances. . .Able direction by John Rawlins maintains a steady flow of vivid action that is soundly motivated. . .J.Roy Hunt's camera work is fine. THE ENCHANTED VALLEY Eagle Lion 77 Mins. Outdoorsy Cinecolor tale of criminal reform via the influence of a crippled boy who brings about the regeneration of a crook... Should stand up well with juvenile audiences. . .Has much in the line of wild animal interest. . .Pace is slow. . . Story borders on triteness... Performances undistinguished.