Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget of $5,000,000-he spared no effort in Sodom and Gomorrah, and in consequence his super-colossus stands as a milestone in the history of cinema. It is the first motion picture that ever tried to tell the story of sodomy to the kiddies...
...first time it has inspired a film, and quite a film it is. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the men who made The Bridge on the River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras, six famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy) and one comparatively obscure young man (Peter OToole) who will soon...
...example, was "crooned" rather than sung, and in general one missed just that quality which Mme. Crespin's recent teacher, Lotte Lehmann, would have brought to the songs, a sense that one was hearing a singing actress rather than a merely vocal phenomenon of the order of the Colossus of Rhodes...
...Bulb for Edison. Such research breakthroughs are old hat at Corning Glass. A singular mastery of technology has built the company from a tiny tableware manufacturer in rural Corning, N.Y., to a corporate colossus with 27 plants across the U.S. and sales last year of $230 million. Coming's wizardry with glass produced the first bulb for Thomas Edison's incandescent light and the window in the U.S.'s first space capsule. It is also responsible for Pyrex ovenware and a technique for spinning cast glass that has enabled Corning to capture the lion's share...
...Hollywood did not have Gregory Peck, it would be madness to think of converting this novel into a movie. Alistair MacLean's heroes are not only larger than life-they are a sort of flea's-eye view of the Colossus at Rhodes. An earlier book that MacLean sold to the movies was The Guns of Navarone...