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Hoellering, Franz | June 22, 1940 issue

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None of the major movie companies dared to touch the Pulitzer Prize play "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. Sol Lesser, an independent producer, had the courage to attempt a movie version and succeeds with it to a high degree. If the motion picture, in spite of its general excellence, is not what it aspires to be or could be, the reason seems to rest rather with the limited scope of the original and with the shift from a tragic to a happy ending. The motion picture "Brother Orchid" was a routine gangster picture with the semi-new twist that the gangster is converted and becomes a brother in an order of monks devoted to growing flowers. The motion picture "Edison, the Man," is a picture similar to the book "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet."

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MOTION picture industry; OUR Town (Film); BROTHER Orchid (Film); LESSER, Sol; WILDER, Thornton, 1897-1975; EDISON, the Man (Film)
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