PANDRO BERMAN: These corporation men are not the old storytelling studio heads of the past. They loved making pictures, and that’s why a lot of people think those old films were better than the films we’re getting now. On the other hand, there’s the school of thought that thinks these films were all sentimental hogwash or hack jobs and that the motion picture of today is the really good motion picture, the ones today being based on the work of one writer, one director, or a combination of a director-writer. And there’s no question that there’s something to be said for both sides.
