More Than Meets the Eye: Rouben Mamoulian's City Streets

Tragic enough at the best of times, this waste of talent is doubly so now at a moment when, for the first time in the history of cinema, we are beginning to experience the rare pleasure of seeing films made by men who have grown up with the cinema, who have spent their lives making films, who are so immersed technique that they transcend it.

Tom Milne Mamoulian

I was one of those stage specialists they were hiring in those days to help the silent directors make sound movies.

Rouben Mamoulian