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...question that for Mann, and the genre, the docudrama approach was mostly an excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann...
...Jury was written and directed by Harry Essex, a specialist in science-fiction screenplays (It Came from Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon) who had no notion of alchemizing menace from pictures and performances. Shot in 3D by noir whiz John Alton, and featuring occasional thrusts into the camera (a rifle, a dying man's hand, the pointed bra worn under a satiny blouse by Peggie Castle as Charlotte), the movie stays perfunctorily faithful to the book, including the use of a few famous lines. "Act like a clam or I'll open ya up like...
...enemies will set among us individuals whose primary function is to object, to dissent, to find fault with our traditional mode of living, until that which we know to be right, begins to feel suspect,” Bernard “Ed” Alton, author of the “Taskbook” admonishes. “In the end, we must pity them: we are going forward with joy and hope; they are being left behind, mired in fear...
...community meeting on the South Side in May, according to the Tribune, Wal-Mart presented Eugene Morris, who runs an advertising firm in Chicago, to offer an endorsement. Morris praised Wal-Mart, noting that the company had brought him $20 million in business. Alton Murphy, a black district manager for Wal-Mart, assured the audience that most of the jobs would be local. "You won't go in and pay your hard-earned money to someone who doesn't look like you," Murphy told the crowd...
...Alton Brown is interested in how food works, from the chemistry of cured salmon (it involves water-soluble proteins) to the physics of pressure cookers (it involves, um, pressure). Even if you never have to improvise a fish smoker out of a cardboard box, you will enjoy watching him do it. He's the MacGyver of mackerel...