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The Black Shield of Falworth (Universal-International). After sitting through three full-color CinemaScope treatments of the Middle Ages (Knights of the Round Table, Prince Valiant, King Richard and the Crusaders) in the last six months, one schoolboy complained that he was "beginning to feel middle-aged." A weary wag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

The Fairbanks on the current job is 29-year-old Tony Curtis, who plays the broadsword, mans the barbican and generally acrobattles with such enthusiasm that no one should be disturbed by a few Curtis crudities. Example: when he kisses a girl-in this case Janet Leigh, who is Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, whose Front Page is still circulating, also engineered this movie, and its hectic, rarely subtle humor is their trademark. Except for the absence of a heroine, the nicest thing about Gunga Din is the movie's willingness to take itself with a block of salt...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Gunga Din | 10/19/1954 | See Source »

"You could go coroneted to acclaim your Queen in Westminster Abbey with the stain of divorce on you," wrote an angry Sunday Express columnist last year, "but you cannot, if so stained, have the duke's permission to cheer her horse at Ascot." Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Consent Decree | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Fairbanks, Alaska

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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