Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Cinema: Sweet Cheating
CLASS OF '44
Directed by PAUL BOGART
Screenplay by HERMAN RAUCHER
Class of '44 is a quiet and quite possibly unconscious example of McLuhanism at work. It is an environment rather than a movie. No jagged element of plot or character is permitted to catch at the viewer's mind and disturb his agreeable reveries about the world as he falsely remembers its being three decades ago.
At the level of production, design and musical direction, the movie is quite cleverly done; it is no back-lot reconstruction of a nostalgically recalled world. Rather, the producers have sought out and found real streets and houses and...
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