Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With their help the young King might yet bring off his brave gamble...
...only notable change of expression that flickered over the bored faces of Hollywood's stars and officials at the recent Oscar-awarding ceremonies came when the name of Robert Rich was announced as the writer of the year's best original motion picture story, The Brave One. After a startled pause, eyebrows raised curiously. Who was Robert Rich...
Before the guessing game started, Producer King and his two brothers were tagged with a $750,000 piracy suit by the Nassour brothers, independent film producers, who charged that The Brave One was lifted from a story they have been animating for the last four years. Nassour's screenplay was done by Paul Rader, 33, now a Boston television producer, who adapted a script written by Willis O'Brien, the Hollywood special-effects man who put the chill into oldtime movies, e.g., King Kong. After the Oscar-awarding show, Rader got a wooden Oscar from his co-workers...
Hurrah for Them! Other movie folk also thought they detected a familiar ring in The Brave One. Director Fred Zinnemann recalled that the late documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) had told him in 1931 of a similar story he wanted to shoot. Flaherty later sold the idea to Orson Welles, who produced an unfinished version of the story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole...
...Brave Ones, then, is a marvelous example of cinema craftsmanship that handles a simple theme extraordinarily well and with a rare artistry, but with few concessions to truth. Co-featured is a nauseous dog-epic with Van Johnson, entitled Kelly...