Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubbard, 39, a swashbuckling, red-haired six-footer, originally unveiled dianetics in the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction. As a result, its earliest devotees were science fiction fans. When Dianetics was first published (Hermitage House; $4), doctors and psychologists paid it little heed. But last week some were getting in on what seemed like a good thing. The Los Angeles Times carried an ad: "Those interested in receiving dianetic auditing please telephone DU 2-3260." At the end of the line was Dr. Vernon Bronson Twitchell, psychologist; he said he got about a dozen calls...
...also offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction's most ingratiating scoundrels. Disney apparently liked him well enough to let him steal the whole treasure (as well as the picture), instead of the single sack of coins that Stevenson let him get away with...
What the movie mainly lacks is enough respect for fiction. It is more convincing after it gets into outer space than during its earth-bound prelude, when a group of U.S. industrialists feel compelled to sponsor the lunar expedition because the Government fails to foresee the trip's military importance. Happily, the script draws the line at romance in the rocket or on the moon, but it does go in for some unrelieved comic relief by a lowbrow crew member from Brooklyn...
...trip to the moon will probably seem like elementary stuff to hardened fans who take their science fiction on the printed page. But the excursion is ideally suited to the wizardry of the movie camera...
...most fabulous of them all was Ned Buntline (Colonel E. Z. C. Judson), who led a life as strenuous as his fiction. He killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of his cut the rope. He lived to a sinful old age (65), a hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak...