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Crack-Up is a 1946 American film noir starring Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, and Herbert Marshall.It was directed by Irving Reis, remembered for directing many "Falcon" movies of the early 1940s including The Falcon Takes Over.
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) – biographical drama film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name [1] [2]; Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) – biographical historical drama film depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States [3]
Rear projection in color remained out of reach until Paramount introduced a new projection system in the 1940s. New matte techniques, modified for use with color, were for the first time used in the British film The Thief of Bagdad (1940). However, the high cost of color production in the 1940s meant most films were black and white. [1]
Soundies were produced between 1940 and 1946 and have been referred to as "precursors to music videos". [1] Soundies exhibited a variety of musical genres in an effort to draw a broad audience. The shorts were originally viewed in public places on "Panorams": coin-operated, 16mm rear projection machines. Panorams were typically located in ...
James Stewart in Winning Your Wings (1942). During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.
The Child (1940 film) The Children from Overseas; The Chinese Bungalow (1940 film) Chingari (1940 film) Chingolo; Chit A Mhya (1940 film) Chit Yay Sin; Christmas in July (film) A Chump at Oxford; Circus Today; Cita en la frontera; Citizen Kane trailer; City for Conquest; City of Chance; Closed Court; Clothes Make the Man (1940 film) Colorado ...
In 2011, online film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing that Siodmak "competently directs this theatrical studio-bound minor film noir, and keeps it more as a character study than as a whodunit. It builds on suspense, but never becomes that exciting or interesting.
The film was one of Roach's "streamlined" features of the 1940s, running 53 minutes and was designed as a b-movie. Like most of Roach's latter-day output, Curley was shot in Cinecolor . Bernard Carr was the film's director, and the film released to theatres on August 23, 1947, by United Artists .