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Farber, Manny | October 28, 1950 issue

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The article comments on various Hollywood films. Hollywood has spawned, since 1946, a series of ugly melodramas featuring a cruel aesthetic, desperate craftsmanship and a pessimistic outlook. These films, "The Set-up," "Act of Violence," "Asphalt Jungle," and "No Way Out," are revolutionary attempts at turning life inside out to find the specks of horrible oddity that make puzzling, faintly marred kaleidoscopes of a street, face, or gesture. Some directors mechanically recreate the unharnessed energy and surprise of great silent films with an elegantly controlled use of the inexplicable.

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SILENT films; SET-Up, The (Film); ACT of Violence (Film); ASPHALT Jungle, The (Film); NO Way Out (Film); MOTION pictures
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