Speaking of Sternberg...

G-HELPS DeleteThis @webtv.net (George Shelps) wrote in message news:<6926-3FC5238D-20 DeleteThis @storefull-2294.public.lawson.webtv.net>...
> rfcsac627n DeleteThis @aol.com (RFCSAC627N)
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> > Reading through DVD reviews today I
> >came across one for Thornton Wilder's
> >1940 OUR TOWN (FOCUSfilm/National
> >Film Museum). Included on the disc is
> >Joseph Von Sternberg's THE TOWN,
> >produced during WW II but familiar to
> >the Baby Boomer generation from
> >countless school screenings. It extolls
> >the virtues of small-town Americana with
> >its freedom of religion, secret ballot, and
> >tolerance of melting-pot immigrants.
>
> I've seen THE TOWN. It's totally bland,
> with not one glimmer that Sternberg
> directed it. I think he was simply
> making his contribution to the war effort.

Are you saying he was really a slacker who was merely going through the motions?
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dtotheroh RemoveThis @aol.com (David Totheroh)
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>>I've seen THE TOWN. It's totally bland,
>>with not one glimmer that Sternberg
>>directed it. I think he was simply
>>making his contribution to the war effort.

>Are you saying he was really a slacker
>who was merely going through the
>motions?

Sternberg was no slacker, but the movie
is flat and undistinguished. It's just
a war information short, not a Sternberg
film, made when he was semi-retired.

(Your question was unserious, but I
chose to answer it seriously)

I happened to have seen it at the
New York Film Festival's tribute
to Sternberg in the early 1970s,
which included the American premiere
of THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS,
a documentary on the unfinished
I CLAUDIUS (1936).









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>From: G-HELPS RemoveThis @webtv.net (George Shelps)

>I happened to have seen it [Sternberg's THE TOWN] at the
>New York Film Festival's tribute
>to Sternberg in the early 1970

I saw THE TOWN when I was in (about) the seventh grade, so I won't testify as
to its quality. But I can still remember it after all these years.

Richard Carnahan
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