Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Korda organization has all the old Korda assets, plus a strong U.S. distributor-20th Century-Fox. But the organization also has the old Korda foibles. If the first 13 pictures are successful, quips Korda, he will "increase production to eight" so he can improve his product...
Insulated from the 20th Century by the desert and by neglect, they still live, for the most part, as they did in the 1860s. Their women wear flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...
...them. After they had filled hotels to the bulging point, they overflowed onto army cots hastily set up in the municipal auditorium. But bunking on cots was no hardship. These kids were accustomed to a rough life. They were the Future Farmers of America, in town for their 20th annual convention...
Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox) is every bit as good a movie as it was a novel. But it may not be as sensationally popular as Kathleen Winsor's account of a Slut's Progress...
Nightmare Alley (20th Century-Fox) is a hair-raising carnival sideshow. At the dead end of the alley lives the Geek, an is-he-man-or-is-he-beast carnival exhibit that tears up and eats live chickens. He is able to stomach this job because he is in the last stages of dipsomania, and is paid a bottle a day and a place to sleep...