Cinema: The First Picture Shows

NICKELODEON

Directed by PETER BOGDANOVICH

Screenplay by W.D. RICHTER and PETER BOGDANOVICH

While pursuing his career as a director, Peter Bogdanovich has been an assiduous and romantic collector of early Hollywood reminiscences. This interest sets him apart from his fellow film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a...

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