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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clive Brook plays this pukka sahib version of Marlon Brando with a skill that makes "stiff upper-lip" an entire facial expression...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Shanghai Express | 4/23/1955 | See Source »

TIME was when the nations of Europe, overflowing with vitality, sent men, money and ideas cascading to the ends of the earth. The flags of their empires were planted in every continent by warriors like Cortes and Clive, sailors like Columbus and Cook, explorers like Champlain and De Soto, by missionaries and by fugitives from religious persecution, by traders like the East India Company and Hudson's Bay Company. Modern imperialism reached its height in Europe's golden 19th century, when Kipling wrote The White Man's Burden and Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes laid his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPERIALISM: Will Chaos or Order Take its Place? | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...have a suspicion," Capote said later, "that John wasn't too clear about it." Surprisingly, Beat the Devil turns out to be a sort of screwball classic. It is the first movie since On Approval−that scintillating paste-jewel of a picture with Beatrice Lillie and Clive Brook−to torture the moviegoer by making him positively ache to laugh, and then deliberately forcing him to hold it and hold it until he is ready to scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

With these two as the outstanding actors in This Music is Clive Parry, who handles his role of a jaded and cynical Englishman with...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Two Plays by MacLeish | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

...tropical island of Bahama. It tells of two people, a dissatisfied wife and a disconsolate stranger, finding a moment of understanding under the spell of the moonlit waters. Besides Amanda Steele, the cast includes Michael Laurence, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Towell, William M. Hunt, and Clive Parry. Directing will be Mrs. Mark DeWolff Howe...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Poets' Theatre Will Produce Two MacLeish Verse Plays | 10/1/1953 | See Source »

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