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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three French films are listed: "Children of Paradise," February 7; "The Well-diggers Daughter," March 7; and "Beauty and the Beast," May 9. The British production of "Henry the Eighth," starring Charles Laughton will be shown March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Presents 9 In Movie Series | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

Aboard Miche, smart, young (19) Jockey Gordon Glisson applied the pressure. At the eighth pole Citation was a head behind. Calumet Jockey Steve Brooks finally took to the whip, but at the finish Miche was a neck in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Something to Explain | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Joey got the go-ahead signal. He began exploding left hooks and right crosses against Mills's jaw. He loosened two of Freddie's teeth; the champ's handlers fished them out of his mouth after the round. They fished out a third tooth after the eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Bum of the Lot | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Three French films are listed: "Children of Paradise," February 7; "The Well-diggers Daughter," March 7; and "Beauty and the Beast," May 9. The British production of "Henry the Eighth," starring Charles Laughton will be shown March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Presents 9 In Movie Series | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Scripted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps as self-conscious heroics, overwrought battle scenes and the women left behind or picked up along the way. (In fact, women appear only in bit parts.) The picture concentrates on an engrossing human crisis posed by the demands of the early air war's "maximum effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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