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Bosley and story
Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.
Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, criticized the film: " Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support.
Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review, writing, " In telling the picaresque story of a mystery writer on the trail of a Levantine bum whose career of crime in the Balkans has stimulated the writer's awe, the film wallows deeply in discourse and tediously trite flashbacks ... To be sure, the Warner schemists have poured some scabby atmosphere into this film and have been very liberal with the scenery in picturing international haunts and Balkan dives ... This sort of worldly melodrama calls for refinement in cinematic style, but the writing and direction of this picture betray a rather clumsy, conventional approach.
Typical of the reviews was one by Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted how the film adaptation was true to the original story and was " vividly and movingly developed in this punctilious film.
When the film was released, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, liked the direction of the film and the acting, writing, " Yet such is the role that Mr. Sinatra plays in Suddenly !, a taut little melodrama that ... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league ... we have several people to thank-particularly Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly, Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense, Mr. Bassler for a production that gets the feel of a small town and the cast which includes Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates.
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times at the time, liked the film and especially Robert Montgomery's direction, and wrote, "... Mr. Montgomery, as director and star of this story, has contrived to make it look shockingly literal and keep it moving at an unrelenting pace.
When the film was released, Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, believed the drama was not exactly faithful to the original Lardner story, which had a very hard-edge.
Film critic Bosley Crowther liked the film, writing, " It's a brutal and disagreeable story, probably a little far-fetched, and without Mr. Schulberg's warmest character — the wistful widow who bestowed her favors on busted pugs.
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, panned the film, especially the screenplay and direction of the drama, and wrote, " Since Pat O ' Brien's noggin suffers a blow which blacks out his memory as the story starts, there probably wouldn't be much sense taking the authors to task for the fantastic events which ensue ... This explosive and promising action sets in motion a chain of circumstances which, no doubt, must have baffled the script writers, too, for they never do give it a logical explanation ... All of the aforementioned principals turn in competent performances, and the mystery is how they managed to get through the picture without becoming hopelessly confused.
Bosley Crowther, film critic at The New York Times, liked the acting in the film but was disappointed by the story.

Bosley and about
Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther praised the film, writing " Mr. Hecht has written and Mr. Hitchcock has directed in brilliant style a romantic melodrama which is just about as thrilling as they come — velvet smooth in dramatic action, sharp and sure in its characters and heavily charged with the intensity of warm emotional appeal.
Bosley Crowther, film critic of The New York Times, called it a " fascinating picture, which has something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed ".
Bosley Crowther called it a " grotesque barren film " about the " glittering and graceless behavior of the Hollywood-international set.
Having descended the 12 Bosley Locks over the course of about a mile ( 1. 6 km ), the canal continues through Congleton to a junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Hall Green stop lock ( the branch itself joins the main line a mile further on at Hardings Wood Junction, near Kidsgrove ).
Reviewing the latter film for The New York Times on February 16, 1967, critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Barbara Harris from the original play cast is as wacky as she was on the stage — casual and direct and totally blasé about the boisterous business of sex.
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, was caustic about the casting and the adaption of Cain's novel, and wrote, "... Rhonda Fleming and a laughably kittenish Arlene Dahl, are a couple of on-the-make sisters, and the fellow, played by John Payne, is an on-the-make big-time gangster.
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called the film " a cynical farce of elaborate and sustained cheapness " that " deserves to be quoted as a classic of dullness " and observed, " Without taking sides in a controversy of such titanic proportions, it is no more than gallantry to observe that if Bette Davis had not effectually espoused her own cause against the Warners recently by quitting her job, the Federal Government eventually would have had to step in and do something about her.

Bosley and experience
Bosley Crowther, The New York Times critic, gave the film a mixed review, He wrote, " But for those who are looking for drama of a firm and incisive sort, Scarlet Street is not likely to furnish a particularly rare experience.
Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a highly positive review, and wrote, " Yet the total effect of the picture is a sense of real experience, achieved as much by the performance as by the writing and direction.

Bosley and with
On the Happy Days set, he developed an on-and off-screen chemistry with series leads Winkler and Tom Bosley, as they each developed their own private lives.
Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.
The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as " a distressingly empty piece "; but, with a profit of $ 2. 5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.
Although Frank Capra cast Raymond Massey in the 1944 film, which was shot in 1941, while Karloff was still appearing in the role on Broadway, Karloff reprised the role on television with Tony Randall and Tom Bosley in a 1962 production on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
This 2009 documentary film chronicles what occurred as a result: the New York Times fired Bosley Crowther because his negative review seemed so out of touch with the public, and Pauline Kael, who wrote a lengthy freelance essay in The New Yorker in praise of the film, became the magazine's new staff critic.
In his review in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther said the film " crackles with allusive life and fire in its tender and agonized telling of an extraordinarily characterful tale " and added, " Mr. Wyler.
Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and wrote, " The eminent director, John Ford, is a man who has a way with a Western like nobody in the picture trade.
According to Bosley Crowther, " the essential purpose of this tale is to amuse with some devious dilemmas, and that it does right well "; he called the script " smart and lively.
According to Bosley Crowther, Since You Went Away, Selznick's first screen production in four years, features a script with an " excess of exhausting emotional detail "; Crowther was impressed with the performances but had issues with the film as a whole:
While scenes for Murder, She Wrote were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.
When the film was released film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film, writing, " We have it on the very good authority of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, who should know — they being not only actors and playwrights but wife and spouse — that what seems a fairly safe profession, acting, is as dangerous as they come and love between people of the theatre is an adventure fraught with infinite perils.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave a highly favorable review and noted that the film " throbs with a rare vitality, and a masterful picture of a nation in revolutionary torment has been got by Director Elia Kazan.
When the film was released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lauded the film and the casting, writing, " Sidney Kingsley's play, Detective Story, has been made into a brisk, absorbing film by Producer-Director William Wyler, with the help of a fine, responsive cast.
Seamus kills the Thin Man as he shares a kiss with Dylan and Dylan kicks Seamus off the building and he falls to his death, with the Angels subsequently stopping Madison's attempt to blow up the premiere of Alex's boyfriend Jason's new movie thanks to Bosley knocking the bomb away.
The film ends with the Angels celebrating their victory with Bosley.
* Melissa McCarthy as the woman flirting with Bosley in the Crime Scene
* Bosley Corner – A hamlet east of Livonia village on US-20A at the intersection with NY-15A.
The film, co-produced by Tall Trees Productions and Flower Films, distributed by Columbia Pictures, co-stars Bill Murray as Bosley, with John Forsythe reprising his role from the original TV series as the unseen Charlie's voice.

Bosley and documentary
Critic Bosley Crowther noted that its " striking and authentic documentary quality has been imported to the whole film in every detail, attitude and word.

Bosley and film
The film was a success, and The New York Times Bosley Crowther singled its star out for praise: " It is Mr. Cagney's performance, controlled to the last detail, that gives life and strong, heroic stature to the principal figure in the film.
The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.
** Bosley Crowther, American film critic ( b. 1905 )
New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the acting in the drama, and wrote, " Mr. Dmytryk has handled most excellently a superlative cast which plays the drama.
Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece.
" Bosley Crowther called the film " wonderful ", and declared, " As a father, torn by jealousy, devotion, pride and righteous wrath, Mr. Tracy is tops.
The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as " interminable "; and he noted that " of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst ".
Bosley Crowther generally panned the film and commented in the New York Times of February 29, 1956: " The script was obviously written to bring and Mr. Hudson, who made a popular twosome in the Magnificent Obsession, together again.
Among those at the film's premiere was film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted that " motion history was made last night ... Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion ... Fantasia ... is simply terrific.
Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, liked the film: " But for all its unpleasant nature, it must be said that this film is a dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.
After The Lady Eve premiered at the Rialto, The New York Times reviewer, Bosley Crowther characterized the film as " a sparkling romantic comedy.
The Living Desert received some criticism for bringing unsubtle humor to its scenes of desert life – Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Disney to task for adding jokey musical effects to several of the film ’ s scenes, including hoedown music for a sequence involving a scorpion battle.
" The film is a New York Times Critics ' Pick: after seeing it at the Astor Theatre, Bosley Crowther called it a " a warm and beguiling picturization based on Sally Benson's memoirs of her folks.

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