The Real Magic
David Sylvester, 8 June 1995
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson.
Deutsch, 834 pp., £25, November 1994,0 233 98859 9 Show More
by David Thomson.
Deutsch, 834 pp., £25, November 1994,
“... Palance by Alan Ladd in Shane is exquisite, but Shane as a whole is a phoney. (But its director, George Stevens, did direct a musical that’s a serious candidate for greatness: Swing Time.) And the problem of evaluating the makers is vastly complicated, as it is with the Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, by the fact that the creation is usually collaborative ... ”