Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darryl F. Zaunck has taken great pains to achieve technical accuracy. Background shots were taken in North Bornce and fantastic quantities of jungle flora was shipped to Hollywood to make authentic looking sets. If Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson and Director Negulesco had lived up to the standards of Mr. Zaunck, Miss Colbert, and Mr. Hayakawa, "Three Came Home" might have been a great movie as well as an exciting and moving...
Producer Nunnally Johnson (Three Came Home) was having a minor disagreement with his boss, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, who thinks that Johnson ought to go to Africa to shoot a picture about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Visiting Manhattan, Johnson suggested that the picture could be made just as well in the U.S. Said he: "Patronize your neighborhood deserts...
...Darryl F. Zanuck's production films this study in the science of command very ably. The picture presents its flyers as normal human beings, afraid, yet not cowardly. They will risk their lives if they can find some purpose in the risk, yet they are reluctant and confused when their missions seem to be accomplishing nothing. Gregory Peck's job, as the new commander, is to give the group some purpose and hope of survival. the production is good because melodrama is kept out of the relationship between the men and their leader almost entirely...
Nothing about Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's painstakingly made film is better than its performances. As a paunchy, middle-aged adjutant, Dean Jagger without his toupee seems to have launched an entirely new career. Broadway's Gary Merrill, playing the general's nerve-racked predecessor, adds considerably to the picture's conviction. Hugh Marlowe, Robert Patten, John Kellogg, Millard Mitchell and Paul Stewart are all able actors in top form. If Hollywood had no star system, the difficult central role would call for an actor of more physical maturity than Gregory Peck. Nonetheless, Star Peck rises...
Next to the annual Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...