Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right now, war movies are in demand, and studies are happy to meet the demand by producing low-cost, easily-slapped-together films. According to one Boston film distributor, "for awhile the industry couldn't make them fast enough; we had to reissue or reprint old films. When the public wants war movies, they're willing to take almost anything. You can't spend too much time making them; you have to satisfy the market immediately...
Indignant New Yorkers pelted Mayor Impellitteri with telegrams of protest. Critics who had panned the movie spoke up for anybody's right to see it. Joseph Burstyn, distributor of Ways of Love, pointed out that after The Miracle was shown in Italy, the Vatican approved Rossellini's plan to do a movie about Saint Francis of Assisi. If the Vatican was not offended by The Miracle, Burstyn implied, who was a mere license commissioner to object? Furthermore, although the film had been "condemned" by the Catholic Legion of Decency as "sacrilegious and blasphemous," it had been passed...
...awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...people have been put aside. Although many Western observers expected a rise in living standards to follow the end of the civil war, the opposite has happened. Living standards in most of China have fallen since Mao took over, largely because of the disruption and liquidation of the merchant (distributor) class. Railroads and other public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists are by nature more susceptible to the corruption of power than to corruption by money...
Last week, though apparently not quite ready for a full-scale U.S. release, Oliver Twist was heading for exhibition in the neighboring and friendly state of Texas. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, announced that a first-run booking had been set for Jan. 19 in seven Texas cities (plus Albuquerque, N.M.). The prospect: moviegoers throughout the U.S. may eventually get a chance to see the picture...