Word: boomerangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place-to base fictional pictures on fact, and, more importantly, to shoot them not in painted studio sets but in actual places. In making this kind of realistic "locale" movie, 20th Century-Fox has been the leader-with The House on 92nd St., 13 Rue Madeleine and Boomerang...
...Boomerang achieved a physical and moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...
...Boomerang? At least part of Hollywood's movie community was not nearly so angry as Representative Worley. There were many, particularly among independent producers, who considered the Johnston Office's action too rash. A prolonged dearth of U.S. films, they thought, might give the British industry an opportunity to cop the home market for good...
...ahead in their activities as outlined by the Secretary of State, should they place all their eggs in the Marshall basket, present their proposals to the United States, and should Congress then fail to back up the State Department with funds, the plan would be turned into a gigantic boomerang. The stock of the United States would sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress...
...Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...