Sight and Sound Volume 22 No 1 July - September 1952

CONTENTS: - Shakespeare filmed - The Brussels Referendum: some 60 international film directors on what they consider the ten best films of all time. Results: the ten best films, main runners-up, and some personal choices. - The Choreography of the gunfight of 'High Noon' - Funny men: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis - In the script: Max Ophüls's 'Le Plaisir' (adaptation of three stories by de Maupassant: Le Masque, La Maison Tellier, Le Modele) - Jean Cocteau on his work and cinema, making films, film music, sound, 'Les Parents Terribles, Orphee, Space and Time, and the future. - stills from "Casque d'Or" - Chaplin's 'Limelight' - Poetry in fast and musical motion - film production: a portrait of 'Kramer and Company' - Stuart Legg gives a predicament of documentary film-making in Britain (sequel) - Europeans in Hollywood - "A Great Film" by Guillaume Apollinaire FILM REVIEWS: - The Quiet Man - Carrie - The Fall of Berlin - The Importance of Being Earnest - Rashomon - Pat and Mike - Singin' in the Rain - Mourning becomes Electra - Macao BOOK REVIEWS: - The British Film Industry, by PEP - National Film Library Catalogue. Part 1 (BFI) - The Film of Murder in the Cathedral, by T.S.Eliot and George Hoellering. - Film and its Techniques, by Raymond Spottiswoode - The Cinema, by Stanley Reed COVER: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their new comedy, 'Pat and Mike'

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