Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
...such moneymakers as The African Queen and High Noon, United Artists' profits climbed fast. Last week pictures distributed by United Artists got 17 nominations for Academy Awards. United Artists is also a front runner in the three-dimensional race, having bought Arch Oboler's B'wana Devil for $1,750,000. The picture has already grossed about $1,000,000 in only 15 showings. On a take of 30-70%, depending on the movie, Krim expects United Artists' 1952 gross profits to hit the $30-million mark...
...supercharged boost, calculated to make TV owners dissatisfied with their cramped little 30-inch screens. Announced 20th Century-Fox: beginning in October, Fox's entire production output will be converted to 3-D color pictures. Unlike the 3-D method used by the Natural Vision Corp. in Bwana Devil (TIME, Dec. 15), the new process, called Cinemascope, gets its effect with only slight changes on the ordinary one-camera-and-one-projector system. Moreover, audiences will not be required to wear special polarized glasses. A curved screen, about 2½ times bigger than the usual screen, will allow moviegoers...
...event, the picture is not important. Whether Bicana Devil be comes to sight what The Jazz Singer was to sound, will depend on how well authors and directors accustom themselves to this essentially new me dinm. Despite its importation everyone should see the picture, it only to add another story to his backlog, of takes to admiring grandchildren. ROBERT L. SCHOENBERG
...picture, by the way, is fail. Slowly Paced, but with enough action to offset the generally insipid acting of Robert Stack. Bwana Devil is 85 minutes of railroad building and lion hunting...