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Warner Bros. early on championed the idea that characters on screen talk and act like real people. The result was movies like ‘I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.’
David Thomson is a film critic and historian, and the author of more than twenty books, including 'The Biographical Dictionary of Film,' now in its sixth edition, and 'Why Acting Matters.'
Warner Bros. early on championed the idea that characters on screen talk and act like real people. The result was movies like ‘I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.’