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...Need one add that Playwright Gunn is not at all satisfied to make this a human fallibility? He persists in what has become for some an article of faith and fallacy- that some whitey somewhere is prostituting the black brothers for gain. Just to spell it out in the corniest imaginable terms, Playwright Gunn has Alexander's wife sue for a contract with a white homosexual film producer (Paul-David Rich ards), and she has to kneel on the floor to pick up the largesse he languidly strews in the form of $1,000 bills. Meanwhile, the producer...
...become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...driving through town with a blonde; this fellow just happens to have a price of $50,000 on his head for a kidnap-killing he may or may not have committed. The police captain (Gilbert Roland), an embittered tough guy suffering from malaria as well as some of the corniest lines ever delivered in Death Valley, sets out in a truck with Von Sydow and three Mexican assistants to hunt down the fugitives (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Yvette Mimieux) and claim the reward...
...life of Christ. King of Kings was produced in Spain by a marked-down DeMille named Samuel Bronston who built 396 sets, hired some 20,000 extras and a dozen slightly famous players, spent more than four months and $8,000.000. And what emerged? Incontestably the corniest, phoniest, ickiest and most monstrously vulgar of all the big Bible stories Hollywood has told in the last decade. Nevertheless, the subject is so dear to the hearts of millions that King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas...
...masters. Not because I thought it would do me good, but just because I wanted to." His figures now became bold and clear, though they seemed to swim out of a background of murky mystery. In 1953 he did a painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware-"the corniest patriotic idea I could find." He left his officers and men only partly finished, scattered them across the canvas almost arbitrarily. (The painting was one of the casualties of the 1958 fire at the Museum of Modern...