Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 7, 1944

Wilson (20th Century-Fox), cinema biography of the 28th U.S. President, may not be the most ambitious and venture some moving picture ever made. But it is indisputably the most expensive. The wardrobe alone cost $200,000; the total cost of this three-hour plea for internationalism—including $1,200,000 for promotion—is some $5,200,000.*

Hollywood at the Crossroads. Wilson is not a great picture, but it is an extremely absorbing, significant and entertaining one, which everyone interested in the protracted coming-of-age of U.S. cinema will welcome. Millions are likely to be excited and moved by it. It is not the first or the best...

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