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What is it about the conversation of just these films that makes it so perfectly satisfy the appetite of talking pictures? Granted the fact, the question can only be answered by consulting the films. Evidently their conversation is the verbal medium in which, for example, questions of human creatio…

[...] Malcolm Cowley, sifting his attentive experience of the period and of its writing, picks out three features for emphasis that our films may be seen to share. The transcendentalist possibility I was noticing seems to be what Cowley calls the period's millennialism, as if under the depression a…

But when I spoke a moment ago of the depicting of the disposition of fantastic sums of money I did not mean that the sums had necessarily to be large but that large or small the amounts had to be significant. In It Happened One Night Clark Gable is not interested in a $10,000 reward but he insists …