Word: burstyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College would change the emphasis from "freshman commuters" to "commuting freshmen." No longer would a man be able to spend four years at Harvard wholly in the society of the Boston-oriented, and the problem of the commuter at Harvard might be one step nearer solution. Harold L. Burstyn...
Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis...
...Little Fugitive (Joseph Burstyn] attempts to follow a seven-year-old boy, a runaway from home, on a 24-hour splurge at Coney Island. As the young hero, Richie Andrusco, who was discovered by the makers of the film while he was riding on the merry-go-round at Coney Island, undoubtedly has the most heart-stirring child's face to appear on the U.S. screen since Jackie Coogan. Even though this lowbudget, Manhattan-made film never takes full advantage of its wonderful material, The Little Fugitive is one of the funniest pictures ever produced in the U.S. outside...
Justice Is Done (Robert Dorfmann; Joseph Burstyn) is an unconventional, Frenchmade courtroom film that puts a jury on trial. But even with its provocative theme, the picture never quite does justice to its subject. It tells of a young woman (Claude Nollier) who is accused of being responsible for the death of her incurably ill employer. Was it a mercy killing-or murder? Justice Is Done focuses its camera on the seven jurors rather than the accused, and attempts to show how their different personalities and problems influence their verdicts-e.g. a farmer (Marcel...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn). Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a cinematic garland by Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME...