Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this rosy chorus of economic expansion, the one dissonant note struck last week came from Vance Brand, director of the U.S.'s Development Loan Fund. Henceforth, in granting aid to foreign countries, announced Brand, the fund will "place primary emphasis on the financing of goods and services of U.S. origin." From now on, in other words, the Development Loan Fund is going to demand that its aid dollars be spent in the U.S., even if the same products are available more cheaply elsewhere...
...tension builds well to the climax-thanks partly to Director Robert Wise (I Want to Live!), partly to an able Negro scriptwriter named John O. Killens, but mostly to Actor Ryan, a menace who can look bullets and smile sulphuric acid. But the tension is released too soon-and much too trickily. The spectator is left with a feeling that is aptly expressed in the final frame of the film, when the camera focuses on a street sign that reads: STOP-DEAD...
...Suzy Parker), an actress who is determined to go places, goes astray with a philandering director (Louis Jourdan). When he kicks her out and takes the next girl in, Suzy takes a header off the nearest fire escape...
...Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...
...Director of the Program, Evon Z. Vogt, associate professor of Anthropology, stressed the educational value of "actual field studies of different cultures...