New Movies, the National Board of Review Magazine (Oct 1948 - Feb 1949)

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o lie have a success unknown in the entertainment world until his day, and to mffer the agonies which only a success of that magnitude can engender ihen it is past, I am proud to say that in I95%6, when days were dark Tor him, motion picture industry, through the ivcadqray, presented Mr. Griffith kith -its "highest honor, an Academy Oscar for his outstanding contribution fco the art of the motion picture.. '• [ \\ ' l»m afraid it didn't ease his heartache very much . ffien you've had what he'd Had, what you want is the chance tomake more pictures, unlimited budgets to play -with,, complete confidence behind you. Ydaa-t does a man full of vitality ca'-re for the honors of the past? It' s the present -he wants, ' a nd the Mature. 1 ' ' There .was no solution fori Griffith but a hind of frenziedbeating on the barred dolors of one day after another . Fortunately, such miseries do not endure" indefinitely. More fortune toly still, when he is dead a man's (career has but one tense. Yihen -11 the honors a man can have are past honors, past honors take on their just proportion. The laurels are fresh on the ; -triumphant brow. He lias/ here, the embittered years forgotten, David :mrk ; Griffith, the Grdat. T H 3 H 3 Vi M 0 V I S 3 Selected by the Committee on • Sxc^ptionai Motion Pictures The Committee on 3xc optional Motion Pictures 'reviews film -of unusual inter as t inthe development of the screen. The opinions of the Committee i are -combined in impartial reviews. Kach review is written by a member wHcTse '-estimate coincides with the majority vote. Committees Henry Bart, chairman; James iigee, Iris Barry, aanuy Pnrbor, Rntn A. r'riodlich," Robert Giroux, Richard Griffith, Philip T.. Hartang, Hattie 3* Heymann, Horraine E. Isaacs, Arthur Knight, Louis* Kroneubcrgor , Morbert Lusk, J£ry B. Miller, Frances Taylor '"Patterson, John B. Turner, Sda Lou Viaiton, Prank Via rd, Leane Sugsmith. :' ; . ii.HhsT From the play by William Shakespeare edited by Allan Pent and Laurence Olivier; photographed by uosmond Dickenson; musical score by "^HiamV^ltoru directed by Laurence Olivier. A Two Cities Production releas ed l^r UniversalInternational. Running time 153 minutes .■ Casts Hamlet, Laurence Olivier; Gertrude , Eileen Her lie; Claudius , Basil Sydney; Ophelia, Jean Simmons; Polonius , Felix AyJLmer; Horatio, Norman Woo land; Laertes, Terence Morgan;