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Room at the Top. A curiously old-fashioned plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

"I'm going up and up and up," cries Lana Turner, who plays the Claudette Colbert part in this version, "and nobody's going to pull me down." Sadly her admirer (John Gavin) slouches away, and Lana goes up and up and up until she finds herself in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

The fault seems to be with the over-all focus. For as the horror of the situation itself fades into a war movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Diary of Anne Frank | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

It is a cliche that it's harder to get into Harvard than to stay in--a fact which is reflected in the amount of space devoted to admissions and financial aids in University Hall. What the applicant sees is rather unimposing; a secretary announces that Mr.------ is ready, he...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Changing Character of Harvard College: Applicants Face Stiffer Costs, Competition | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

The Perfect Furlough. A bubbly cliche cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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