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| Joe Gillis |
 Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:28 am |
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I caught part of this tonight on TCM (I'll watch anything with Mitchum
at least once). Wasn't expecting much from a Stanley Kramer-directed
soaper, and NOAS certainly had its share of absurdities: Sinatra and
Lee Marvin as med students (although the scene where they argue about
the most profitable medical specialties is a classic), the med school
being made up entirely of students over 35, DeHavilland's
now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't Swedish accent, and above all the
hilariously overdirected and overscored Mitchum-Grahame love scene.
But there was something very interesting about the med school montages,
showing the docs overwhlemed by patients -- no dissolves were used.
Instead there were simple cuts from one patient to another. This may be
the earliest, no-dissolve, no-"smash-pan" montage sequence in Hollywood
history.
NOAS was editted by one Frederic Knudtson. His credits on IMDb are
mostly RKO programmers pre-NOAS, sincere Kramer productions after, with
a few points of interest along the way (notably The Window in 1949 and
the 1962 Pressure Point, which has a memorable sequence showing psycho
Bobby Darin's dream).
As the NOAS montages are far more cinematic than anything else Kramer
ever did, I suppose we can give Knudtson the credit. |
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| Kingo Gondo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:42 am |
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"Joe Gillis" <FloatingInThePool@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159590513.065284.23410@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
Quote: I caught part of this tonight on TCM (I'll watch anything with Mitchum
at least once). Wasn't expecting much from a Stanley Kramer-directed
soaper, and NOAS certainly had its share of absurdities: Sinatra and
Lee Marvin as med students (although the scene where they argue about
the most profitable medical specialties is a classic), the med school
being made up entirely of students over 35, DeHavilland's
now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't Swedish accent, and above all the
hilariously overdirected and overscored Mitchum-Grahame love scene.
But there was something very interesting about the med school montages,
showing the docs overwhlemed by patients -- no dissolves were used.
Instead there were simple cuts from one patient to another. This may be
the earliest, no-dissolve, no-"smash-pan" montage sequence in Hollywood
history.
I agree--this was eye-catching. The same technique was used in the small
town medical center as well.
I expected to hate this film (Mitchum notwithstanding), but I was actually
caught up in it. |
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