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...first important role, as the all-American soldier who turns out to be a German spy in Billy Wilder's 1953 war comedy Stalag 17. The film provided an early view of Graves' ability to play both a hero type and its own internal contradiction. Throughout the '50s he alternated supporting parts in big films (The Night of the Hunter, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) with leads in It Conquered the World and other sci-fi anticlassics ripe for later mockery on Mystery Science Theater...
...seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre, which dominated TV drama in the '50s and '60s, is just too much of its time to thrive in a more gray-hatted era. HBO aired three seasons of Deadwood, a dark and poetic look at the Darwinian life of a mining camp, but that was less a remake than a rebuttal...
...Caroline McHugh had another fantastic day,” Alpine Coach Tim Mitchell said. “[It’s been] three consecutive GS’s where she’s been top 25 or so. She’s starting in the 50s, so she’s cutting her start number in half. She’s doing exceptionally well...
...opportunity in film was that it was kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...
...that it was here where John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” premiered in 1956. Osborne’s play took a harshly realistic look at working class life, marking him as one of several British playwrights and novelists in the late 50s who had grown disillusioned with the way their government was running things. “It’s best to be a rebel so as to show ’em it don’t pay to try to do you down...Factories sweat you to death, labour...