I can’t explain why I’ve always been attracted to the films of Rko. It can’t just be that arresting radio tower logo; there’s something unpredictable about the studio’s body of work during the 1930s and '40s. Now, thanks to longtime studio scholar Richard Jewell (who coauthored the coffee-table reference book The Rko Story years ago) I understand a lot more about the workings—and undoing—of this once-promising organization. Born out of the remnants of Joseph P. Kennedy’s silent Fbo studio, the powerful Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville theater chain, with 700 houses across the country, and David Sarnoff’s imposing Radio Corporation...
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- 6/7/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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