Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take would seem to be merely a surrender to the council. Throughout the trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there was the gala $23-a-plate dinner and world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence...
...heart is touched with recognitions. Moreover, the acting in all the major roles is wonderfully full and natural, and for that and for all the picture's graces of execution, credit is due to Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann. But the leading virtue of this film derives from James Poe's screenplay, and ultimately from Lonnie Coleman's play, from which it was adapted. That virtue is maturity of feeling - the rare ability to take people as they are and life as it comes...
...Reading on through a poll (reported in Variety) of U.S. embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied, "No. We in Hollywood live in an ivory tower-or an ivory sewer. We have absolutely no idea of the effect our movies...
...story (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951) of a young narcotics agent who broke up a Texas dope ring by posing as a teen-age addict, is written in the sort of hipsterical slanguage that can only be understood by the underprivileged few who really dig that crazy talk. The film is reviewed by TIME's Endsville correspondent...
This Angry Age (De Laurentiis; Columbia). "There were many children in the plain," wrote Marguerite Duras in The Sea Wall (TIME, March 16, 1953), the brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they...