Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio) is a tough little film about small-time prize fighters with big-time dreams, and the racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey...
...Fallen Idol. A handsome, British-made suspense film which is also a brilliant study of child behavior, with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...
Quartet. Four unrelated short stories by Somerset Maugham; a British-made film of wit and compassion (TIME...
...Find God . . . Right in There," screamed the bannerline, and the curly-haired little girl in the ad pointed straight at the title, The Lawton Story, "A Picture That Does Something to Your Soul." As the film went into release last week, the two live-wire Ohio promoters who made it were confident that religion would serve them as well at the box office as sex has done since...
...done right well by Producers Kroger Babb and J. S. Jossey. Their only other movie, a feature-length sex education film called Mom and Dad, has quietly taken in $8,000,000 from 20 million moviegoers. For the last four years, it has been strenuously peddled in 42 states and Canada...