Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson dutifully published more names of would-be or could-be profiteers in the U.S. commodity markets. Last week's list (his 20th) had 738 traders with one trait in common: all had past or present connections with the Government...
...20th Century-Fox also had a good seat on the bandwagon. Last week, Fox's Spyros Skouras announced that, beginning Feb. 16, Movietone News would supply NBC with five television newsreels a week...
...turns cold; the dry, thorny brush of southern California yields to evergreen forests. Deer bounce across the roadway; squirrels peek from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
...Ideal Husband (London Film; 20th Century-Fox) is not one of Oscar Wilde's best plays, but it has enough edge and style to make the run of plays look oafish. Alexander Korda's screen production of it is short of ideal, but it is distinctly something to see and hear...